Family Pride’s Blog

Family Pride is honored to be a participant in and the sponsor of Mombian.com’s Blogging for LGBT Families Day. The list of participants is a long one and it attests to our power as a community and as a movement.

It also speaks to the changing faces and changing tools in the fight for family equality. Ten years ago, people would probably have thought that a “blog” was some sort of prehistoric amoebic creature. Today, blogs are sprouting up faster than bad summer sequels. According to Technorati:

there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.”

And just who is reading these blogs? Probably not who you’d think. A survery done by Blogads.com found that 72% of blog readers are 31 years old or older. An overwhelming majority of these readers rely on blogs for “faster news” and a “better perspective.” Wow. Could blogs be death knell for mainstream news media?

One thing is clear: we are now more connected than ever before. We can reach more people more efficiently and faster than ever, resulting in a network of people that respond almost instantaneously to news and current events.

Blogging for LGBT Families Day is harnessing this power to ignite change in our community. By making our families visible, we are challenging the radical right and the political rhetoric; by sharing our family stories, we are changing hearts and minds across this great country.

If you would like to participate in Blogging for LGBT Families Day, it’s not too late: click here. If you’d like to see the long list of participants, visit www.mombian.com.

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