LGBTQ: Has the internet helped?
summary
Personal story of coming out via YouTube and Facebook leads to concrete wins: first transgender man on Team USA (2015) and a challenged Olympic policy that IOC policy changed 2016 to widen access. Covers practical tools: community groups like TransAthlete and The Diana Award, the YouCanPlay project, and a tracker — nohomophobes.com tracks slurs in real time — plus risks from apps (Grindr, Her, Tinder), online abuse, and global stakes (72 countries criminalize same‑sex relations, eight with death penalty).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:33Chriss story
- 3:15Being allowed to compete
- 5:29How the internet helped
- 9:51No Homophobescom
- 14:55Whats next
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