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LGBTearth is a social media campaign aiming to capture the lives and opinions of LGBT people around the world with the first event taking place on Friday 29 November 2013.

Founded by blogsite LGBTicons.com, participants are asked to take a picture and share it on Twitter or Facebook using the #LGBTearth tag. The project aims to capture a day in the life of LGBT people and the people who love them.

The initiative was set up by blogsite LGBTicons.com, which aims to celebrate the lives of people of achievement in the LGBT community, profile champions of equality, and share information and news that may be of interest.

Founder Barry Church-Woods said of the event:

“We’ve been profiling LGBT people of significant achievement, and sharing news about LGBT communities globally, for over a year now and the more we research and write, the more depressing it gets. Coming from a position of privilege as an out gay man in the UK, it struck me that so many people are still being oppressed across the world. You need only look at the situations in Uganda, Russia and Malaysia today to realise how far behind we are, as a planet, in realising basic human rights. As such, I’m hoping that LGBTearth will offer a great showcase of exceptional people all over the world. A digital pride so to speak.

Over the past two years I’ve been really impressed with The Advocate’s ‘A day in LGBT America’ campaign, though it’s definitely missing the global reach. That’s what I hope the first LGBTearth will achieve.”