Web can be a place where we can have the best & worst experiences re: being out and all. Can be banned from Digg for posting 'porn' however that is defined.
Session descriptionQueer bloggers are like the blogger next door--and we're not. We're here, queer, and letting straights read all about it. LBGT blogging brings together a powerful demographic that is ghettoized but also connected to the mainstream blogosphere. Come talk about the scene with bloggers from diverse queer perspectives.
Deb Rox - 3 Smart Girlz LLC
Can be a place of extreme conflict because of who we are.
[This session will be an open conversation]
"I just want to find out where the gay bars are" lol...
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Who of you are active here? Who blogs, etc?"
Someone: Talk about tech, but had a blog for a year and never identified it as female. Nobody ever checked out the about link.
@stacyjill from Chicago. Found it amazing that everyone has been really supportive in blogging online.
People introducing themselves, this is an intimate conversation. Yay!
@stacyjill found it interesting she's getting lots of right-wing followers on Twitter. "They just want to find out where the gay bars are"
at the queerosphere core conversation #queersxsw
Oh it's begun. "I'm not active in blogging I consider myself versatile in blogging"
My boy @
mthomps is so smart. And wants to know where the gay parties are. #sxsw #queerosphere
Lots of talk of Prop 8. Someone just claimed we had too much of a "reactive" response to it.
"Our side did a really poor job from the top down." – Paid to support an ad on Facebook to target the under 40's because organizers of anti-prop 8 people couldn't get their shit together.
"It's not the creator that gets the message across, it's the content. We're not creating enough compelling content to get the word out on the street."
"Becomes an echo chamber of yourself. Not doing enough reaching out."
'People need to get out of the chair once in a while too.'
"The network effect can work really well to our advantage."
@remarkk - "The fact that I'm gay has very little to do with the content of my blog."
@remarkk - "We're from Toronto and it's a very accepting place. The Twitter community there is advancing in a really interesting way – we're acting as a bridge between gay/geek communities. Together, we're starting to build those bridges."
@remarkk - "Don't think 'this is our community, you have to hear about us' is the transformation point. Transformation will happen when we will invite the community to join us."
OH: "[Oil can Harry's] is like a 3D gay Twitter"
#sxsw Brad from The BradLands is in the Queerosphere panel. pre-2000 LGBT "bloggers" FTW!
[Sorry, this session is hard to live blog. Lots of discussions from lots of peoples.]
Everyone talking about their background in blogging, how it is being out to friends around you.
Showing sexuality preference in Facebook seems to be an easy/indirect way of coming out. (Many of my old friends only found out this way)
"I used to be afraid to be public, now I don't care. It begins to be normalized when I choose to de-marginalize myself, people are engaged because they know a gay person - me. I'm keeping people informed so they can have the conversation among their friends"
Creator of
iamFIVESTAR talking about her experience in video blogging, also uses
Seesmic to connect to others.
Great point by Brad – More we talk about things we do like cycling, etc. informs readers that gay people are involved, do the things they do.
Lots of discussion about how we might facilitate the intersection of our communities.
Diana from SFO dealing directly with Prop 8 issues, in a Mormon/Christian family. Faced Prop 8 supporters head on screaming at her.
Diana took photos of the people yelling at her, gets lots of hate mail but does it for kids to see both sides.
Gay community "becoming complacent" because urban queers don't see a lot of homophobic actions day-to-day, so it's important to still highlight these events.
Talking about content – people think arguments with homophobes is a tiring thing to follow on blogs and will unsubscribe.
Pop culture showing gays humanizes them? Don't think I agree with that.
Re: Will & Grace "We're all Will in a way." ... "Some of us are Jack"
Lots of Dan Savage reference from the CA queers. (Love love LOVE him!)
No on Prop 8 campaign got a lot of backlash from LGBT community because they didn't specifically support gay marriage.
Who do we have that are expressive and are generating compelling content to break down discrimination?
We have Dan Savage... who else?
"I feel it's important having gay presence is good but not the point."
@remarkk - "When you get people in a facilitated process and don't have to look to that fabulous leader in order to do things."
@remarkk - "The reverse great schlep – The Gay Schlep. Go back to your home town and influence people there."
Someone's trying to organize first ever QueerCamp in Milwaukee. Nice.
(Have the SFO queers done a QueerCamp? Why not?)
Use the community spaces you have, "In African American civil rights movements they had the Church. We have the bars." LOL
[6 minutes till my battery conks out, sorry if this ends prematurely... that's what she/he said]
"What's your queer-friendly impression of SXSW?"
TONS of first-time SXSW'ers in this room (that might be true in other sessions as well – this event has exploded this year)
Sounds like the queer presence at SXSW and conferences as a whole has really increased.
Thanks all - closing up the blog :) #sxswhomo meetup tonight at 11 at Oil Can Harry's. See you there!
AdamSchwabe
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