Turing Program: LGBT Resources

The Turing Program lists here some additional resources, including media coverage and links to organizations and related publications related to online policy issues and the LGBT community. For alerts, media coverage, and publications related to incidents of online bias, discrimination, or defamation against the LGBT community, see the LGBT SWAT Team page. More general information about online policy issues is available from the Issues bar across the top of each page on this site.

Media Coverage

	Online Pics Get Gay Politician in Trouble
	A member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom has exposed himself to scandal by posting his nearly nude photo on a gay Web site, PlanetOut.com (December 1, 2003)

	Online Pics Get Gay Politician in Trouble
	A member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom has exposed himself to scandal by posting his nearly nude photo on a gay Web site, Gay.com (December 1, 2003)

	Appeals Court: Vermont Law Can't Stop Internet Sites That Discuss Sexuality
	Citing the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled that a Vermont law cannot stop a nonprofit organization and the American Civil Liberties Union from publishing information about sexuality on the Internet, Associated Press via KCBS (August 28, 2003)

	Attack of the Smartasses
	Friendster.com creator Jonathan Abrams wants to purge his über-hip dating site of phony profiles. But online "fakesters" are fighting back, SF Weekly (August 13, 2003)

	Internet Filters Block Valuable Data, Too
	A 17-year-old girl thinking about having sex for the first time logs onto her school's computer for the latest facts about sexually transmitted diseases, USA Today (August 12, 2003)

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Organizations and Related Publications

OPG Co-Hosts Bridging the Digital Divides Event Join us the week of August 25-29 as we discuss "Bridging the Digital Divides, Equal Access to the Internet" on Techsoup's Digital Divide Forum, including topics such as class-based disparity in available technology, the role race, ethnicity, and religion play in the digital divide, women and technology, the impact of Internet blocking software on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and access to technology for people with disabilities, Online Policy Group (August 25, 2003)

San Francisco Celebrates Supreme Court LGBTIQQ Rights Ruling A jubilant crowd of people dedicated to human rights for same-sex partners is gathering today to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking the Texas sodomy statute, Online Policy Group (June 26, 2003)

	Sex and the Internet: What's Happening? What Can We Expect Next?
	OPG Executive Director Will Doherty will present twice on online civil liberties as relates to sexuality and online communities at this Western Region Annual Conference in San Jose, California, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (April 12, 2003)

Sex and the Internet OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "Sex and the Internet" to the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in San Jose, CA, Online Policy Group (April 12, 2003)

Harmful to Minors Review

Judith Levine's "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex" is a must-read for those who seek to understand American attitudes toward sex education and childhood sexuality and for those interested in how to use the Internet to reach out to young people who are exploring their sexuality and seeking sexual health information, despite Internet filtering, University of Minnesota Press (October 17, 2002)

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