Helping a "new" pride group get to know us

[Ginger_Fi]

---Hello all. I may have been AWOL for awhile, but I'm still active in the "GLBT" community. Wal-Mart is starting a new "Wal-Mart Pride" group that is being formed to inform the Wal_mart community about those living different lifestyles. I am a active member of that group, and have been trying to help it gather information it needs to enlighten their members of local "friendly" spots.
---Needless to say, Eureka is a well known locale among the group, and I am doing my darndest to get them to partake in the local scene. I am quite certain that there will be a fairly large contingant of people coming to this falls "DW".
---I will try to this week get them to start participating on our board here. Let's welcome our new guests with open arms "eureka" style.

[Sparky]

Ginger this is so KEWL and any idea how you are doing on benefits for same sex partners with Wal-Mart? Having large corporate giants that offer benefits also helps us out with marriage between same-sex couples. When legislation like Michigan, where GLBT couples and their children are fighting for health care benefits after the state's constitutional amendment on marriage has jeopardized those crucial protections well, it can get costly for corporations to offer and provide health benefits in these states. So, passing these anti GLBT legislation thus places places a lot of corporations into the arena to want to lobby for us! Otherwise they may have to offer two health plans one for straight and one for the GLBT.


I cut n pasted some interesting info fromHRC:

recent research has uncovered some interesting characteristics about GLBT consumers. For example, a 2001 survey conducted by Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications Inc. found that consumers who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender have deeper trust for products and brands that not only target gay consumers, but even more so for products offered by companies that have progressive policies toward gay and lesbian employees. Fifty-six percent of all gays sampled agreed that they trust brands more from progressive companies — with 41 percent reporting they "strongly agree."
Since corporate America is courting this market, GLBT consumers, investors and employees can play a role in ensuring that they work hard for the money. Increasingly, GLBT consumers are not content to buy a product merely because a company deigns to direct advertising toward them. Many gay consumers use HRC's website and other resources to find out whether a company also has a non-discrimination policy that covers sexual orientation and/or gender identity; whether it offers domestic partner health insurance; whether it sanctions a GLBT employee resource group; and if it makes contributions to GLBT and/or HIV/AIDS community organizations.
So CYBER NOW DO YOU SEE/UNDERSTAND WHY A PINKLIST IS WANTED!!! :roll:

(a PINK list is a briliant concept of JERP...instead of listing the bad and having a nasty evil witch hunt ...we spread the word of all who are GLBT friendly ...and I bet everyone wants to be on that list... I just wish they could all be ,or at least want to be, sponsors as well)
WOOFwoofWoof,
Sparky

[Ginger_Fi]

I really can't say much about rights and policies for GBLT, because I just don't know. I am just helping them get acquainted with the community around them. Just doing my little bit

[Sparky]

Ginger do you think is it working? Is it hard work or scary? Do they open up and visit and communicate? SHARE SOME OF IT!!!

I hung info posters at my work for our SBC GLBT sponsored organization called SPECTRUM and my co-workers would rip them down or deface them... even after I filed a EEO complaint. I never thought a simple poster printed by SBC for workers of SBC would cause such anger and hate, but it does. Hey it's getting better the last one lasted over three months before being trashed. They used to last just 24 hours.

WOOFwoofWoof
Sparky

[Cyberphillics]

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So CYBER NOW DO YOU SEE/UNDERSTAND WHY A PINKLIST IS WANTED!!! :roll:

(a PINK list is a briliant concept of JERP...instead of listing the bad and having a nasty evil witch hunt ...we spread the word of all who are GLBT friendly ...and I bet everyone wants to be on that list... I just wish they could all be ,or at least want to be, sponsors as well)
WOOFwoofWoof,
Sparky

I LIKE IT....I LIKE IT ALOT....I LIKE PINK EGGS AND HAM! :P

[Ginger_Fi]

Sparky I private messaged you.

[Dawn]

Ok, David, you MUST tell me where to get pink eggs! LOL

Ginger, darling, bravo! Thank you for working so hard to bridge the gap. Blessings on you my sweet! Give Gingers Girl my love and tell her I miss her so!

[Ginger_Fi]

I've met a lot of really nice people in the group. I'm just wanting to make them aware of the "joys of ES". Hopefully I can get them on here to say hello soon

[Cyberphillics]

Ok, David, you MUST tell me where to get pink eggs! LOL


Well of course you get them from a PINK chicken.

[Cyberphillics]

If that PINK chicken has a PINK cock in the yard then there might PINK chicks.

[Dawn]

:shock: He said PINK cock! :shock:

[angela]

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