Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
This Weekend! S.F. Pride!!
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the well-being of LGBT Youth, which included the President Obama's national initiative to end bullying of LGBT youth. Part of this initiative is the It Gets Better project. The White House is also hosting its own LGBT Pride Celebration, which you can read about here.
Given this long-needed attention, this year's pride theme - "Stand Up For LGBT Youth" - is a great theme for the pride celebration. To punctuate the importance of this theme, this month, the S.F. Giants became the first professional sports team to fashion a PSA for the "It Gets Better" campaign, which you can listen to on JSJ's YouTube page by following this link. I have it listed under Favorites.
If you have the opportunity to go to S.F.'s pride, do it. It's a great celebration, celebrating a great cause this year! Celebrate your pride!!
Do you know who or when the Rainbow Flag was created as the universal symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community?
Find the answer here.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
What Gear Are You Planning For Gay Pride?
June is nearly here, and you know what that means - Gay Pride!! Being near San Francisco, it's an all-out Gay Pride-a-thon, with men in scanty attire everywhere you can see. Underwear becomes outerwear on that day. So, do you plan to show off anything special? Tell us. Will it be something like this?
Or is this more your speed?
Or is this more your speed?
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
.XXX And What It May Mean To Adult Websites
This week, ICANN may be handing down a decision creating .XXX. Under the proposal, all adult sites would be required to have the extension.
At first glance, this might seem like a good thing, but FreeSpeechCoalition.com (FSC) thinks otherwise. According to an XBiz article, FSC is joining forces with adult industry stakeholders on March 17 to protest final approval of the new domain extension.
FSC argues that a .XXX domain extension would make it much easier to filter or block adult sites. This would be very bad news for the adult industry.
In addition, the .XXX domain extension would be considered a "top level" domain, and its price would reflect that "distinction." It is unclear at this time whether the new proposal would include blogs operating as non-hosted sites. Presumably, however, a site such as JSJ, which has its own domain, would be required to get a .XXX domain extension.
This move by ICANN comes at a time when a House Committee has voted to roll back the FCC's Net Neutrality guarantees, essentially leaving all power in the hands of mega-corporate ISPs. A required .XXX domain, together with the unfettered discretion of these ISPs to control content (effectively what happens when we lose Net Neutrality), might result in adult sites being completely blocked and made inaccessible.
Only time will tell, but if you are interested, near San Francisco, and would like to be a part of the protests, they are taking place on Thursday, March 17, at 12:30, in front of the Westin-St. Francis Hotel located in Union Square, in San Francisco.
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