Ash Beckham on stage

My name is Heather Hogan and I’m a TED Talks junkie. I have the TED Talk app on my phone, the TED Talks podcast on my iPod, and I follow TED Talks on every social media platform available. What can I say? I like ideas worth spreading! Over the past couple of years, TED has hosted a variety of queer and queer-adjacent speakers who have joined together to spread messages of hope and humor across the entire internet. (Which is to say: across the entire world.) Here are six of the most inspiring and uplifting queer-themed TED Talks of all time.

From Ash Beckham’s ‘Coming Out of Your Closet’ to iO Twillet Wright’s ‘Fifty Shades of Gay,” see the list at AfterEllen.com

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Ash Beckham discusses the current state of homophobia in our culture challenging even the word “homophobia” itself.

“There is no fear, just loathing. Hating things we don’t understand, people we don’t know or anything that is different than our day to day. “Homophobic” people are not scared of anything. We all have a responsibility to live our lives as active activists not passive ones when it comes to protecting our fellow humans from hate of any kind.”

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