Type of site | Not-for-profit Entertainment Queer geekdom |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| President | Nic Gitau |
| URL | geeksout |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Not required to access |
| Launched | October 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | English |
Geeks OUT is a New York City-based, non-profit organization, founded in 2010, whose mission is to rally, empower, and promote the queer geek community. The content on its website often focuses on gaming, video gaming culture, comics, superheroes, science fiction, television, film, and other "geek" media, through a queer lens. Geeks OUT has left a "solid impact on geek culture."[1] Geeks OUT is host to the world's largest LGBTQ queer comic con, Flame Con.
The organization also came to international attention when it started a Skip Ender's Game movement in 2013. The movement, often promoted with the #SkipEndersGame hashtag, called for a boycott of the film Ender's Game, based on the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.