Tigs
Everyone should just get on with things and let it be. Positive discrimination is as damaging and offensive as any other form of predjudism.
Interesting word, prejudism!
I'd call it prejudice but railing against positive discrimination was the main part of my point.
I was chatting to a mate who's planning to go to the 'conference' tonight. We agreed that he and 95% of the attenders would be sat there praying for the PC bolleaux to end and the bar to open, and a fair part of me takes my hat off to them for wangling a hoot and roar in London at HM's expense, even if it means recovering while listening to 2 days of bovine excrement.
My view is there's no such thing as the 'gay community' any more than there is a 'straight community'. There are people who happen to be gay and there is a small minority who want special treatment and conferences.
My concern is that such things will work against the stated aim which to my mind is 'sexuality is a professional irrelevance' and will cause resentment. Whether that is the case is what I'd like to gauge from the wider PPRuNe community.