More People Googled LGBT Rights During Election Week Than Ever Before In History

Google Trends is reporting that worldwide searches for “LGBT rights” has reached an all-time high during the US election week, blowing past every record throughout Google Trend’s history, which begins in 2004.

There was a slight rise in searches on the day before the election, and a significant increase on November 8th (Election Day), but the major surge was on the day following the election, specifically during the hours that Trump was announced winner.

While the majority of the searches came from the United States, the cumulative quantity of searches was able to break the worldwide record. Canada, Ireland, Singapore and the Philippines were the next top countries searching for this term this week, with each of these countries’ searches reaching around 27-33% of the United States’ quantity. 

Learn more: 

• LGBT Rights by Country
  
• LGBT Rights in the United States
  

Learn About LGBT Laws in Any Country Using DuckDuckGo

Equaldex is now integrated directly into DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track you. Searching for “LGBT rights” and almost any country name will surface Equaldex’s extensive data on LGBT rights.

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that promotes user privacy. With its growing popularity, its currently getting over 300 million searches a month. 

DuckDuckGo also has a active volunteer developer community, letting its users build extensions directly into the search engine. DuckDuckGo’s Equaldex integration was built by a talented volunteer developer Chris Wilson.

Try out some example queries:

• LGBT rights China
  
• Gay rights Brazil
• LGBT rights Canada

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See the interactive map of LGBT rights.

Search Equaldex Through DuckDuckGo

You can now search Equaldex directly through DuckDuckGo! Try searching “!equaldex [country name]” to look up LGBT laws in a country.

A bigger integration with DuckDuckGo is coming soon!

https://duckduckgo.com

Get LGBT News on Your Google Play Newsstand

Follow Equaldex’s blog and LGBT news on Google Play’s Newsstand app on iOS and Android! LGBT news is curated by Equaldex users. Want to contribute? Join us!

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Participate in a Test Program: Daily Curated LGBT News in Your Inbox

You’ll receive hand-picked LGBT news stories once a day (or less) for about two weeks. After the test, you’ll be sent a short survey asking your opinion about the experience.

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You may unsubscribe at any time.

Equaldex Billboards Go Up In Orlando, Florida

Thanks to a generous donation by Love Is Equality, Equaldex billboards are now displaying in 16 locations across Orlando, Florida.

The billboards highlight and important LGBT rights fact – that being gay is illegal in 77 countries around the world. 

The digital billboards will be rotating throughout 16 locations over the next six months.

If you’re in the area and happen to see one, please share it!

Love Is Equality is a non-profit corporation that produces apparel including t-shirts, tank tops, hoodies, and accessories to spread the message of Equality. 60% of the organization’s profits from each sale are donated to equality organizations in the state that the order is shipped to.

Visit Equaldex: LGBT Rights by Country

Introducing Equaldex News

With the ever-changing landscape of LGBT rights, headlines are surfacing each day ranging from groundbreaking laws being passed to small-town achievements.

Equaldex’s new LGBT News feature creates a platform to share and discover links to interesting stories about LGBT rights and LGBT culture. Equaldex’s new voting system surfaces the most popular and freshest stories.

Over the past months, Equaldex has been evolving into a comprehensive resources for information about LGBT rights across the globe, however, one area many users have asked for is to provide more insight into more than just the laws.

Earn Karma by Sharing Interesting Content

“Karma” are points you earn each time your posts or comments get upvoted. Once you receive enough karma, you gain the ability to downvote content.

Distribution of LGBT News

News submissions can be tied to a region, which then distributes those stories across the site (news tagged with Wisconsin will be distributed to the LGBT rights in Wisconsin page and the LGBT rights in the United States page). After some vetting, interesting news stories are also distributed to Equaldex’s Twitter account.

Try it out: Explore and submit LGBT News!