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[http://www.dotgayalliance.com/about/ About Dot Gay Alliance]</ref>The company plans to use the revenue generated from .gay TLD to fund GLBT rights groups worldwide. Its initiative is supported by the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Nepal, Sunil Babu Pant, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Daniel O'Donnell, Member of New York State Assembly, Edmund White, Award-winning author and professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University and Paula Ettelbrick, Civil rights lawyer, advocate, and non-profit executive. <ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dot-gay-alliance-announces-plan-to-create-gay-web-address-65200027.html Dot Gay Alliance Announces Plan To Create .GAY Web Address]</ref>  

[http://www.dotgayalliance.com/about/ About Dot Gay Alliance]</ref>The company plans to use the revenue generated from .gay TLD to fund GLBT rights groups worldwide. Its initiative is supported by the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Nepal, Sunil Babu Pant, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Daniel O'Donnell, Member of New York State Assembly, Edmund White, Award-winning author and professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University and Paula Ettelbrick, Civil rights lawyer, advocate, and non-profit executive. <ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dot-gay-alliance-announces-plan-to-create-gay-web-address-65200027.html Dot Gay Alliance Announces Plan To Create .GAY Web Address]</ref>  

==Possible Objections==

==Possible GAC Objections==

A report from Time Techland quoted a statement from [[Milton Mueller]], a Syracuse University professor and ICANN expert that the two contenders for the .gay TLD might face objections among the members of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee ([[GAC]]) from conservative Arab nations. Mueller's statement reads, ''"It is clear from conversations with government officials in a couple of conservative Arab countries that they object to .gay."'' <ref>[http://techland.time.com/2011/03/05/icann-vs-the-world/ ICANN vs. the World]</ref>

A report from Time Techland quoted a statement from [[Milton Mueller]], a Syracuse University professor and ICANN expert that the two contenders for the .gay TLD might face objections among the members of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee ([[GAC]]) from conservative Arab nations. Mueller's statement reads, ''"It is clear from conversations with government officials in a couple of conservative Arab countries that they object to .gay."'' <ref>[http://techland.time.com/2011/03/05/icann-vs-the-world/ ICANN vs. the World]</ref>