Longtime YouTube star Tyler Oakley, who has become one of the platform’s most prominent Lgbtq voices, has increasingly harnessed his platform for advocacy work in recent years.
Now, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard -- a University Of Wyoming student who was beaten, tortured, and left to die as a result of his sexuality -- Oakley is gracing the cover of The Advocate magazine. The storied Lgbtq publication calls Oakley “an icon for a new generation of activists,” and he shares the cover with five other burgeoning figures: transgender musician Gio Bravo: basketball player couple Layana White and Haley Videckis, who sued Pepperdine University for discrimination; Los Angeles poet Edwin Bodney; and bisexual filmmaker Shayna Maci Warner.
In The Advocate, Oakley discusses how his social media presence and activism are Lgbtq increasingly overlapping. “I went to school thinking maybe someday I’ll work for a nonprofit.
Now, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard -- a University Of Wyoming student who was beaten, tortured, and left to die as a result of his sexuality -- Oakley is gracing the cover of The Advocate magazine. The storied Lgbtq publication calls Oakley “an icon for a new generation of activists,” and he shares the cover with five other burgeoning figures: transgender musician Gio Bravo: basketball player couple Layana White and Haley Videckis, who sued Pepperdine University for discrimination; Los Angeles poet Edwin Bodney; and bisexual filmmaker Shayna Maci Warner.
In The Advocate, Oakley discusses how his social media presence and activism are Lgbtq increasingly overlapping. “I went to school thinking maybe someday I’ll work for a nonprofit.
- 9/26/2018
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
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