Reply #567: Glad I Saw This

[mondo joe]

Having been gone from DU since early 2009, many here will not recognize or remember my name, though I was a member from 2001 on.

I was one of the bunch who chose to leave DU, and spent some time in an alternative forum called The Silo, set up by disenchanted LGBT DUers in 2008.

I wasn't part of an identified "gay purge", but in retrospect there was a simmering passive gay purge. There was a positive glee on the part of some DUers who harassed many LGBT members out the door in those days, and a blind eye on the part of many mods. As others in this thread have noted, even mentions of sorrow about what was happening were deleted, and we were made invisible. **That was the worst of it, for me.**

For whatever reason I looked into DU tonight and read this thread. I could take issue with some of Skinner's points, but I see Sapphocrat has done that already, and more ably than I could.

Still, I'm glad to see some acknowledgment from Skinner, however late. But I'm wistful at seeing so much still unchanged.

To those of you who have stuck it out or who have come along since, I wish you well.