Another awesome gay data viz that deserves a shoutout! NoHomophobes is a project out of University of Alberta's Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services that has been tracking homophobic language on Twitter for years now! The interface features a real-time counter for 4 homophobic terms, a scrolling ticker for the actual tweets (some are really hateful, be careful), and options to see historical trends in usage. Not super sophisticated, but I really like it. They did a great job making it simple to understand and interesting to explore. Check it out!
Sidenote - this site, years ago, introduced to me that "no homo" was a thing. I was very confused and I still don't like it, what does it even mean!? Do people actually believe you when you say it? As a society can we please start realizing that both platonic and romantic feelings between people of any gender is a-ok?! People can be weird, I tell ya.
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