Video: GLAAD’s Panel on Homophobia & Virtual Communities

[Duncan Grant]

On Saturday, July 18th, GLAAD held its first ever Digital Media event as part of our newly launched Project on Homophobia & Virtual Communities.

The event, a panel discussion hosted by Electronic Arts on their private campus in Redwood City, CA, brought out some of the industry’s foremost companies, organizations, gamers and media as both panelists and audience members.

Panelists included Flynn DeMarco, the founder of GayGamer.net, Dan Hewitt, the Senior Director of Communications for the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) which owns and hosts E3, Caryl Shaw, a Senior Producer in the Maxis Studio (Electronic Arts, Inc.) who has worked on games like The Sims and Spore, Cyn Skyberg, VP of Customer Relations at Linden Lab (Second Life), and Stephen Toulouse, the Program Manager for Policy and Enforcement on Microsoft’s XBox LIVE service.

The panel started with an introduction from GLAAD’s incoming President, Jarrett Barrios who then introduced me, GLAAD’s Director of Digital Media, as the moderator of the panel.

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