Gaymers
Great little segment from Current featuring good friend of the site Mister Flynn DeMarco. Flynn discusses internet anonymity, online gay bashing and attacks on his own community. An interesting and very well-made mini-documentary shedding some light on the big pink homophobic elephant in the room. People on the internet are often jerks, but sometimes we can band together to provide safe spaces for people and build genuinely positive communities.
Of course this brings up a larger topic in my mind: what can we sane, intelligent, tolerant people do to help influence a change in the way people treat others online, specifically over Xbox Live? How do we show the people spouting hate speech that they are genuinely hurting people with what they say, and do they even care?
