The inverted pink triangle, surrounded by a green circle symbolizing universal acceptance, was introduced at anti-homophobia workshops from the Gay & Lesbian Urban Explorers in 1989. You may want to use this image at your place to show its a space free from homophobia and to indicate your alliance with gay rights. You can get a copy at the Xinashi landing zone. grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Xinashi
Please help distribute the sign by setting it for sale and full perm. Let me know if you display this, and I'll add your place to a list of LGBT-friendly places. Not sure how we can use the list. Let's make a list of ways to use the list!
So, my grand plans for the Alliance. Let me know what you think.
The group description says that we work at "identifying and promoting places that celebrate pride, individuality, and diversity"
Identifying LGBT-Focused Places
• Use "region search" to find places with, for example, "gay" in their name/description.
• Call on our own and friends knowledge of such places.
• Put up a front-page post asking that owners of LGBT-focused places contact us.
Promoting - Plan A
Our main effort would be to help promote LGBT-focused places. We would rotate monthly events among them. Think of the Safari tours, but with a single destination each month. To be selected, these places would need to commit to cross-promoting Alliance events.
Promoting - Plan B
The aim is to create a community of LGBT-focused places that support one another. I've been cautioned that there are factions, politics and competition among them. So Plan B is to do Safari-like tours of LGBT-friendly places as well as any LGBT-focused place that agree to take part.
While there is a Plan and a Plan B, plan B would be easier to implement first. That means finding a good mix of LGBT-friendly and LGBT-focused places for Alliance events
The problem is that there are so many LGBT-friendly places (What a nice problem to have!) How do we go about picking which, and in which order, for monthly events that rotate among them? It makes sense to me to pick group member places first.
In addition, I'd like to have an annual fund-raising event for a group-selected organization that helps the LGBT community.
More to come.
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