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Where do the Queers, "Weirdos," & "Freaks" Gather...?

Jo on October 24, 2023

Folks, if networking is king, where is a centralized space for atypical individuals? I'm talking people left of center. People working with what th...
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Jo •

Guess we gather somewhere else, cause there's zero responses here =P!

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Michael Tharrington •

Bahhh, sorry I missed this post, Jo.

Those places that Rachel mentioned are great!

Also, we have a yearly event for Pride month where we encourage folks to post under #devpride (and some folks post under #pride).

As Rachel mentioned though, we could certainly get better organized here!

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Jo •

Hahaha, no worries Michael! I was hoping to catch some fish, as they say. Baiting them with this post. LGBTQA+ is cool, but damned if I didn't want more than a single segregation of folks. I feel like there's a small underground army of individuals who are just waiting to be united. I want that intersectionality, of what people would consider the crayon nubbins of the world. Then I want them melted together to form a jumbo-crayon ;P!

I'm gunna follow those tags too by the by! Thank you!

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Michael Tharrington •

Haha, thanks for spelling it out to me... love the melted jumbo crayon analogy! 🙌

For what it's worth, I most definitely consider myself to be in the "weirdo" and "freak" category. At least that's who I aspire to be... all my heroes are weird and freaky haha!

It would be really fun to try and build a gathering of us like-minded oddballs...

Maybe we could us an org or create a dedicated tag. Gonna think on this for a bit! 🤔

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Rachel Fazio •

Lol to this comment, we would love to have a more clustered queer place here!

We do have a DEV tag:

#lgbtq

Tag to discuss anything oriented around the LGBTQIA+ community, experiences, resources, materials and more.

That I have always wanted to revive. Good luck to ya and let me know if I can lend a hand!

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Rachel Fazio •

Ah, seems like we also have:

#lgbt


#trans

A dedicated tag for trans people to share articles, tips, and discuss about technology.

and maybe some org pages too! @michaeltharrington mentioned to me

which our Brazilian Portugues dev community created, which could be cool to check out!