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06-01-2014, 03:14 PM
10 Gay Rights Activists to Follow on Twitter
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June marks LGBT Pride Month, chosen to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/case1.html), a violent protest between police and visitors at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City
One quick way to stay tapped in to LGBT happenings is to follow famous activists on Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). Many powerful people use the 140-character social tool to spread their messages of equality, from transgender author Janet Mock to *** columnist and It Gets Better cofounder Dan Savage
Here are 10 gay rights activists who deserve a quick tap on the "Follow" button.
See also: A Decade of Equality: Remembering the First Same-*** Marriages in the U.S. (http://mashable.com/2014/05/17/same-***-marriage-decade/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/01/gay-rights-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Features (http://mashable.com/category/features/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Lgbt (http://mashable.com/category/lgbt/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Gay Rights (http://mashable.com/category/gay-rights/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/tXV--FAVAJk
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June marks LGBT Pride Month, chosen to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/case1.html), a violent protest between police and visitors at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City
One quick way to stay tapped in to LGBT happenings is to follow famous activists on Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). Many powerful people use the 140-character social tool to spread their messages of equality, from transgender author Janet Mock to *** columnist and It Gets Better cofounder Dan Savage
Here are 10 gay rights activists who deserve a quick tap on the "Follow" button.
See also: A Decade of Equality: Remembering the First Same-*** Marriages in the U.S. (http://mashable.com/2014/05/17/same-***-marriage-decade/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/01/gay-rights-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Features (http://mashable.com/category/features/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Lgbt (http://mashable.com/category/lgbt/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Gay Rights (http://mashable.com/category/gay-rights/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/tXV--FAVAJk