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Crowdsourced Website Equaldex Launches, Provides Global View of LGBT Rights Equaldex, the collaborative LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights knowledge base has launched! The site is aimed at crowdsourcing every LGBT-related law around...

Crowdsourced Website Equaldex Launches, Provides Global View of LGBT Rights

Equaldex, the collaborative LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights knowledge base has launched! The site is aimed at crowdsourcing every LGBT-related law around the world.

The site provides users an accurate and comprehensive global view of the LGBT movement, with the use of maps, LGBT rights timelines, statistics, and historical data in each country and region.

How Equaldex Works

Equaldex is completely collaborative; as LGBT laws change, users update the database, citing reputable sources for accuracy. Other users are encouraged to authenticate the accuracy of each update and the information becomes verified as site usage increases.

The site’s growing database includes a variety of LGBT-related issues for each region: gay marriage, serving in the military, discrimination protection, donating blood, same-sex adoption, the ability to legally change gender, and more.

Visualizing the LGBT Movement

Data on Equaldex is structured in a consistent format, which is displayed in the form of maps, visualizations, and statistics about the LGBT rights movement. Equaldex aims to become an invaluable educational resource and provide a comprehensive insight into how the LGBT rights movement is progressing and which areas of the world are falling behind.

User Contributions & Collaborative Research

Users are credited for contributing information to Equaldex, giving them an extra incentive to continuously update the site. Each user has a profile that shows contributions they’ve made, the amount of “accurate” votes their contributions received, and the regions to which they’ve contributed.

Using a “discussion” page on each region, users can collaborate by sharing resources, discussing the status of the region’s laws, and helping each other research missing or ambiguous information.

Visit Equaldex, The LGBT Knowledge Base

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 1:21pm
February 25, 2014
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Posted by Dan Leveille at 12:42pm
November 20, 2013

“Gender Edit" Facebook Campaign Gets Retracted, Public Apology Issued

Late last week, I reported about Gender Edit, a campaign to create the largest "gender change” in history by using Facebook. After the campaign received a lot of criticism, it was shut down by its organizers and a public apology was issued.

Many readers had concerns against how the campaign used the word “sex” and “trivialized” the concept of being transgender. Another major concern was that the campaign was scheduled for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of transphobia.

The campaign organizers told Equaldex that their "intentions in creating this were entirely pure” and that they were working to revise the campaign. The campaign video was soon after taken down.

A few days later, the campaign was completely retracted and a video apology was published.

“I really do hope this helps. The stir this project has caused was never our intention. We screwed up, and we’re sorry.

Regardless of gay, straight, cis, or trans, we are all human, and mistakes are part of the human experience. Please reach out to me, I want to hear from you.”

Please share your thoughts about Michael’s apology video.

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 6:43pm
November 18, 2013

Gender Edit Campaign Aims To Create Largest Group Gender Change In History on November 20

November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A new campaign called Gender Edit aims to create the largest group gender “change” in history… by using Facebook.

The campaign is asking participants to change their gender on Facebook for a day on November 20th to prove that even if your [gender] changes, "who you are doesn’t.“

From the campaign:

"In a world where what we post is who we are, your gender can help commemorate the importance of acceptance.

It’s pretty simple. On November 20th, 2013 we’re asking you to pledge your support by changing your gender on Facebook for just one day.”

Learn more on GenderEdit.org.

What are your thoughts? How do you feel about this campaign? Will you be participating?

EDIT: Many readers had strong concerns against the campaign, particularly the use of the word “sex” and the “trivialization” of being transgender. I sent a note to the people who organized the campaign regarding the concerns brought up by readers and I received this response from them:

“I can honestly say that our intentions in creating this were entirely pure. […] While we are both cisgender people, we are also members of the LGBT community and were only trying to gain some additional support and awareness for the struggles faced by that facet of our community.

We’re working on some revisions to the project now. (Moving it off of TDoR and onto a different day in TransPride week as well as addressing the already topical Facebook gender issue.)”

Gender Edit Campaign

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Posted by Dan Leveille at 10:14pm
November 14, 2013