Growing up in a small town Pennsylvania, Alexis Rydbom was bullied and faced racial discrimination because she is a biracial.
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Jimmy Nguyen talks with Randi Zuckerberg about what issues cause her to speak up – such as technology trends and being a female entrepreneur. Randi also uses her voice to speak up for two issues near to her heart – stopping in utero transmission of HIV to babies, and curbing…
Jimmy Profiled by 10,000 Couples Online Magazine In March, 10,000 Couples’ associate editor Heidi Mann published a profile of Jimmy regarding his role in bringing the “It Gets Better” videos to the stage. Read an excerpt of the article here and read the entire article on the 10,000 Couples web…
Jimmy Publishes Article on Dot Complicated Jimmy authored the following piece for Dot Complicated, the new e-newsletter and web site from Randi Zuckerberg. This article, published in February, focuses on how community engagement helped bring “It Gets Better” to the stage and to audiences around the country. Read an excerpt…
What would you think of an Internet project that comes alive on stage as a music and theater production? If you were at the Wilshire Ebell theater in Los Angeles on February 1, you’d give a resounding Facebook “Like.” That night, a sold-out audience gave standing ovations to the…
Last week in Iowa City I realized the LGBT movement spends too much effort preaching to gay urban audiences. We need to invest more time gathering support from straight neighbors, especially in suburban and rural areas, so that LGBT acceptance becomes a full community affair. Although I was cold from…
In just the first week of October’s National Anti-Bullying Month, two courageous women emerged to show that bullying can backfire. In West Branch, Michigan, high school sophomore Whitney Kropp went from victim to fairy tale princess after vindictive classmates nominated her to the school’s homecoming court as a cruel prank….
IT GETS BETTER On Stage: Anti-LGBT Bullying Campaign Developed Into Touring Theater Work Take the power of the online It Gets Better Project to help LGBT youth, and translate it onto a theater stage. That’s the vision of a new It Gets Better theater project which will blend music, theater…
“Asians in the Library”: Internet Intolerance and a Wake-Up Call to the Gay Community This March, UCLA student Alexandra Wallace shot to viral Internet infamy with her offensive “Asians in the Library” video. In 3 short minutes posted onto YouTube, Alexandra bemoans the “hordes” of Asian students accepted at UCLA….
On October 20, 2010, we celebrate LGBT “Spirit Day” by wearing purple in honor of a number of gay youth who committed suicide in recent months. I applaud “Spirit Day” and the choice to wear purple to honor those young gay men who are no longer with us. But the…
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Jimmy Nguyen is nationally-recognized as an award-winning lawyer, LGBT and diversity advocate, digital media thinker, and speech expert. With a last name pronounced like the word “WIN,” Jimmy’s message for everyone is “Why Fit In? Stand Out and WIN.”
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