[CREATE] "Reclaim your identity".

[Liam R E Quin]

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:11 -0500, ginger coons wrote:

> Many people might find themselves falling at the first gate. Instead of, for
> example, walking away, thinking about it and coming back, many people
> confronted by the feeling of outsiderness might find themselves deterred for
> good. Not to say that we need to become hyper-inclusive at the expense of
> our real purpose, but it is a consideration which is, I think, at the crux
> of this whole gender discussion.

It's one reason why I made a decision to be openly gay - so that people
would see someone gay and not in fact a demon, and maybe their opinions
would change a little, and maybe other gay people would feel a (very)
little safer.

I haven't been able to get to LGM for a couple of years, unfortunately,
because W3C can not in general pay for staff to go to conferences.

Liam

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