Reply #: +7

[Duncan Grant]

This is exactly why I've stopped donating to DU. I rarely post here - but when I do, it's almost always to the GLBT forum.

As a former moderator and long-term member, I did everything I could to improve this place for LGBT people. To no avail.

Skinner, EarlG and the moderators failed the LGBT community on DU. We were systematically attacked for months on end, and when we asked Admin to be our allies and supporters -- they abandoned us in favor of "the broader interests of the larger DU community". (Sound familiar?) And LGBT people are passively harassed all over these forums to this very day.

"Nest of vipers" mean anything to anyone? That's the characterization of LGBT people at DU which was supported by Admin and the moderators. There are posts mocking the LGBT forum and its members still standing in another forum on DU. How about the time the "Best of DU" threads were arbitrarily locked in the LGBT forum? How about the purges of gay members? And the list goes on and on (details available upon request).

You guys owe DU's LGBT community an amends. Big time. No one with any self-respect would invite their LGBT friends to post here (unless they have some very sentimental ideas about social and economic justice for LGBT people).

Finally, to be very clear, this post is about Admin and the moderators only -- and their years long neglect of the LGBT community, not the members who continue to ally with LGBT people.