Ok, so I'm new on twitter but coming across Genderfork was extremely eye opening and gave me a positive sense of social media sites like twitter as a voice to express yourself. I have someone very close to me who is gay in real life but chooses not to disclose this in any of his online persona's. He feels like the online world is less accepting and there are no avenues for him to express his feelings to the online society without being at risk for harassment and judging. He feels like there is no online gender, queer, trans, bi, alternative community within the online world that is as popularized as facebook and twitter. When I came across genderfork I can to share this with him, it is a site for people to anonymously submit their feelings or thoughts about issues of gender and sexuality and the site later tweets these feelings/thoughts. This provides a subtle, secret arena for their voices to be heard without having the risk and fear around online discrimination. Let's get more sites like genderfork! Please check it out!!
http://twitter.com/#!/genderfork
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