LGBT forum. Good thing for WP or just yet another subforum?

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so a subforum for debating religion isnt actually to help religous people. ok.


cool.



what if an LGBT person who has aspergers or autism is being being bullied BECAUSE they are LGBT... that doesn't belong in L&D does it?

at least half of what ive seen in the politics/religion bit is people comparing gay marriage with bestiality... *sigh*

I do kind of wonder if having a GBLT forum here is a bit redundant though. So many people on the board are either gay, bi, or a bit transgender. It is far more common than in the NT population.

Having a specific LGBT or whatever forum is redundant because if you are having dating issues, it can be answered in L&D; if you are being bullied because you are gay, it can be answered in the Haven, et cetera. There really is no need to lcutter the forum with more sub forums when all LGBT issues can probably be answered in the existing sub forums.

if you want 2 talk about COD, create a topic in gaming.

i think that if WP only had a couple of subforums already, then it would make sense that it would clutter things to add one more. but there are lots of smaller subforums already, and this one is no more specific than those ones are.

maybe if cluttering is a problem, WP could clean out some of the lesser-used subforums, or ones that don't relate to AS at all? because there are a few that are gathering dust. if we want to keep things on-topic and less divided, do we really need a forum games section, for example? that isn't related to AS at all.

the Bipolar, Tourette's etc. subforum is almost entirely composed of topics that would all fit in other categories already. but it is nice to have one central subforum to find support instead of digging through other categories. i think that very few people marginalize or limit themselves to that one forum only, so it is not exclusive or divisive to have the "other disorders" subforum.

my own philosophy - we are all on a spectrum (including NTs), and WP is a place for people in difficult situations to feel welcome, even if they don't have AS (have you noticed that large number of NTs who post here? they must gain someething from being here too). people who are ADHD or Bipolar often feel like they are on the wrong planet in real life, and i'm sure that some GLBT people feel the same way. i think the subforums are a way to attract and include people who feel marginalized in the outside world.

I still don't understand why GLBT people don't think they can post about their issues in any other parts of the forum. Do they really think the general WP population is bigoted enough to not understand and help?

Giving them a subforum seems like segregation to me. Openly posting about their issues wherever they want on WP; that's the definition of GLBT acceptance to me, not segregating them.

Should we get rid of the women's forum as well then?