Happy Pride 2009!

Posted June 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm by Drew Geishecker, Network Services

 2 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News, Yahoo! For Good

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Stonewall — widely considered the birth of the modern-day LGBT civil rights movement. It’s been quite a year for Yahoo!’s tens of millions of LGBT users – as well as their countless family members, friends, and supporters.

In the last year, we’ve seen civil marriage rights for gays and lesbians both granted and subsequently taken away from Californians, while also witnessing marriage legalized in 10% of U.S. states and even more countries in Europe. We’ve also seen a further explosion in LGBT pride celebrations across the globe. This year marks the first pride celebrations in China, several countries throughout Central America, and even Tahiti. There were multiple organized events for LGBT rights in cities across India, Russia, Cuba, and nearly 100 new pride celebrations throughout Brazil. Check out the map of over 1,000 LGBT pride events across the globe at pride.yahoo.com for more info.

On the home front, we had a great time again sponsoring San Francisco’s International LGBT Film Festival this past week. In commemoration of Stonewall’s 40th birthday, we hid free Yahoo! Mail Plus and Flickr Pro packages under the seats of 40 lucky audience members at two sold-out screenings at the historic Castro Theatre. It was an amazing experience to see a packed-house of 1,400 people simultaneously shout out the classic Yahoo! yodel when the prize packages were announced. Congrats to all the winners!

However, that was just the run-up to our big giveaway this pride season. We’re excited to announce that Yahoo! is going to send two winners on a week-long trip to the 2010 Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras in beautiful Sydney, Australia, next summer (that’s February, a nice treat for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere). Mardi Gras is a spectacular citywide pride event in Sydney, and the prize-winners will arrive in time for the big parade and extravaganza. You can enter to win either online at http://pride.yahoo.com through July 1, 2009, or in person at the Yahoo! booth at the San Francisco LGBT Pride Festival this Sunday, June 28. Please come visit us near the corner of Grove and Larkin Streets on City Hall Plaza, say hi to Yahoo!, and enter for a chance to win.

Again, Yahoo! wishes you and your loved ones happy LGBT Pride 2009!

Drew Geishecker
Co-chair, Yahoo! Pride

Tagged: LGBT, Yahoo! For Good, yahoo! pride

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Susan Hewitt | June 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Tears of joy – in memory of my late brother, Bobby. He happened to be in NYC at the time and was literally blown away by the brave and boisterious protest. It was life changing and life affirming for him. Pride on!

Acai | September 7th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

Well, He happened to be in NYC at the time and was literally blown away by the brave and boisterious protest. It was life changing and life affirming for him. Pride on!

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