Halloween in my youth was exclusively for us children. In costume we fearlessly walked the streets after dark in search of candy and an occasional apple bob. The fiend hiding in the bushes we knew was just another kid trying to scare us. True, parents told of reports from New York and other bastions of…
LGBT Weekly social media reporter, Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, who is a veteran of the Iraq War and who is Puerto Rican, was likened to a feces-throwing monkey in a Twitter post from an account owned by the life partner of the leading San Diego mayoral candidate, City Councilman Carl DeMaio. The tweet in question contained a…
Twitter announced Thursday that it will begin to restrict Tweets based on content in specific countries. Ranging from “pro-Nazi” to possibly gay-centric content, the social platform said on their official blog they would allow content to be censored depending on the country’s speech policies. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that…
