Best Place for Gay Issues?

Where is the best place on the forum to discuss gay issues, and post dispatches from the ongoing international war against homophobia?

An example -
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2008/03/im_not_gay_bashing.html

Hi Steve, you're right, there's no specific forum for GLBT issues on babble. There probably should be at this point. There was a time when we raised the issue here, and there were several gay babblers who didn't like the idea of threads being ghettoized into a gay issues forum. So we respected that and didn't create one.

Is it time to revisit that, folks?

P.S. I'm glad you brought this up, Steve. In fact, just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking about this and meant to raise it here.

[ 16 March 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]

I think such a forum would definitely be a good thing. There often is no clear place to start a thread on LGBT issues. The result is that they get scattered more or less randomly across the board, and some threads don't get started at all.

I don't see "ghettoization" as a problem; it's not like LGBT issues or queer analysis would be banned from other threads. Rather, having a forum specifically for LGBT issues would encourage them to be brought to Babble and promote discussion of them.

The other main concern that came up when this matter was discussed in this thread was that it might attract trolls. We seem to be attracting trolls just fine as is, so I don't see that changing much.

I'd be in favour of a dedicated forum and I don't think it would ghettoized. But I would like to propose that Babble calls it a GLBTQ forum to be more inclusive of those who identify as queer or questioning.