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LGBTQ News: Corporate America Turns Rainbow for Pride Month, Social Media Platforms Now Letting Users Display Pronouns

Author
GBH
Published
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Episode Link
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_181_e2772179-6b77-4f91-bf12-0122df9268b8&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wgbh.org%2F181%2Ffeed-rss.xml

Corporate logos turned rainbow during this year's Pride Month, even as some of those same companies made hefty donations to anti-LQBTQ politicians. Instagram and LinkedIn now offer a profile section displaying users’ pronouns — will other platforms soon follow? Those stories and more on today's LGBTQ Roundtable.

Guests:

Grace Sterling Stowell — executive director of the Boston Alliance of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Youth

Janson Wu — executive director of GLAD - GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders

Sue O’Connell — political commentator at New England Cable News; co-publisher of Bay Windows and The South End News

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