Viktor Kerney is a Los Anegles-based collegiate student affairs administrator. He is also the blogger and activist behind the Black Weblog Award-nominated Southern4Life. Viktor is known across the Twitterverse as @Wondermann5—and has been critical on the lack of the diversity in LGBT media and organizations.
"I'm hoping Netroots Nation will change that," Kerney tells R20. "[LGBT media] will go to a few voices but there are many others as well. They need to challenge themselves and see what other people are writing,"
"I'm happy [some of us] are here," Kerney tells R20. "But [the relative few] shows that we have to encourage our own to attend these events. I would like to see more Black LGBT leadership on the boards of major organizations. And more outreach towards finding more LGBT leaders of color."
This is Viktor's first Netroots Nation. He is one of about 40 bloggers and activists recruited on a scholarship program developed by the fabulous Mike Rogers and Netroots Nation. Listen:
WORK, Victor ! ! !
Posted by: Corey | 17 June 2011 at 18:40
Haha I know Viktor! He is the best! :0)
Posted by: Toddy English | 17 June 2011 at 18:41
*Kerney
Posted by: Jamie Paisley | 17 June 2011 at 18:45
I am proud of each of you, male and female, who are there putting in work and keeping us connected!
We can't all be everywhere, but we can all be somewhere! Rod2.0, you continue to hold down the cyberspace of it all, I will show up at religious/activistic spaces, someone will handle Broadway and someone else music and we'll SHOW OURSELVES that we OURSELVES are all we need!
Posted by: TheRevKev | 17 June 2011 at 20:28
Awesome!!
Posted by: mechadude2001 | 18 June 2011 at 11:26