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This year, like almost all years before, LGBTQ+ Pride month is taking place at a time of burgeoning anti-LGBTQ+ violence, harassment, and criticism. Lawmakers and regulators are passing legislation restricting freedom of expression and privacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and fueling offline intolerance. Online platforms are also complicit in this pervasive ecosystem by censoring pro-LGBTQ+ speech, forcing LGBTQ+ individuals to self-censor or turn to VPNs to avoid being profiled, harassed, doxxed, or criminally prosecuted. Unfortunately, these risks look likely to continue, threatening LGBTQ+ individuals and the fight for queer liberation.
This Pride, we’re here to help build an online space where you get to decide what aspects of yourself you share with others, how you present to the world, and what things you keep private.
We know that it feels overwhelming thinking about how to protect yourself online in the face of these issues—whether that’s best practices for using gay dating apps like Grindr and Her, how to download a VPN to see and interact with banned LGBTQ+ content, methods for posting pictures from events and protests without outing your friends, or how to argue over your favorite queer musicians’ most recent problematic takes without being doxxed.
That’s why this LGBTQ+ Pride month, we’re launching an LGBT Q&A. Throughout Pride, we’ll be answering your most pressing digital rights questions on EFF’s Instagram and TikTok accounts. Comment your questions under these posts on […]
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