Wed, Apr 15, 2009 | 20:05 BST
Microsoft meets GLAAD over Live gay rights
XBL community manager Stephen Toulouse has met with members of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to discuss how Microsoft can improve relations with the gay community.
Speaking in a recent Major Nelson podcast, Toulouse did not go into much detail on the chat, but he did say it was a positive experience.
“I can’t talk about what we discussed specifically except to say that we provided them with a lot of information about what we do today, why we do what we do and how we do it,” he said. “And then we asked them the question, ‘How can we do this better?’ And we have some ideas. Here are some ideas.
“That dialog was super, super helpful. I think it was a great engagement. Justin and Jeffrey who came out from GLAAD really appreciated the effort that we’re putting into it – and had great ideas, like they brought up some stuff we hadn’t thought of.
“I would recommend to any business who’s tackling these issues, they’re a great group to work with. The GLAAD folk totally understand a variety of things, they’re really great to work with. They want to enable communities to be safer. They just want to enable communities to be safer – that’s what my team tries to do as well, so it was a great thing.
“We’ll plan to say something about [GLAAD and Xbox LIVE policy] in the future.”
You can hear the full podcast through the above link.
Via Gay Gamer.
7 comments
#1
Captain Fruitloop
15/04/09, 5:42 pm
Does this mean you won’t get called ‘gay’ or ‘a fag’ in every game of CoD on Live now?
#2
jeremycafe
15/04/09, 6:42 pm
Nope, but you will get to see gay used in gamer tags/profiles from now on. You don’t know how good someone is at games until you know their sexual orientation. This is urgent to get put in.
#3
Psychotext
15/04/09, 6:52 pm
“That dialog was super, super helpful (sweetie)”
Hmmm
#4
Gekidami
15/04/09, 7:03 pm
“Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation” = ‘GLADD’? What?
#5
Hunam
15/04/09, 8:20 pm
I guess Stephany isn’t an L Word fan. Then again, who is?
#6
Stephany Nunneley
15/04/09, 9:13 pm
Sorry Hunam. Don’t get it your joke there (blond).
But no, never watched it because I am too cheap (read: poor) to pay for the extra cable package
#7
Hunam
15/04/09, 10:31 pm
Was just poking fun at the GLAAD/GLADD typo, by referencing a pretty awful if somewhat token gay show.