www.gay.gay

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Well, I guess I could agree with that it makes sense, but like "qisforquinton" said as long as they don't start putting inapropiate things on there than yah, I guess there's nothing wrong with it.

 

This.
Also, I reckon this would segregate gay people from their straight allies. If EC was a .gay site, there is no way I ever would have joined, because I wouldn't have felt that it applied to me and I would have felt excluded by the domain name.
Why should we label sites that target gay people, and not label sites that appeal to a specific race or religion?

 

What about a site for an LGBT travel agency? Why not have the option for them to have a .gay site if they want? Its not like EC has to use it

Also, straight people make up 90% of the world. They have no trouble finding other straight people. They dont need to join a "Straight group" in there city to meet other straight people. You cant really compare a minority to a majority in ways like this : - /

 

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Yes.

 

Calling yourself a minority in the first place is the problem. If everyone stopped focusing on themselves and their own minority, and instead realizing we're all humans no different from each other, I think the world would be a slightly better place. Idealistic, maybe. But still, an LGBT Travel Agency? Shouldn't we be wanting harmony?

 

I agree. I mean, why do you guys need your own travel agencies? So many travel agencies exist as it is, and practically all of them offer advice on gay friendly places to go. Every Lonely Planet guide book has a chapter specifically for gay people. I know this was just an example, but still.

Separating yourself and living in your own community, shopping at the LGBT supermarket, going to the LGBT travel agent, etc., is not going to make any gay person more accepted. Sexuality is just one small part of a person. But after all, we're all people, and separating people based on one tiny aspect of themselves isn't going to do anything to promote tolerance and understanding.

 

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.bullshit domains would be popular as all hell.

 

Like it or not, we are a minority. And, as a minority, we need to be able to support one another. We can't just pretend there are as many of us as there are straight people. A .gay domain would make it easier for a person to find LGBT sites. Now, it's one thing if the government made all LGBT sites use it to separate us from society, but if there's the ability to freely choose to use it, where's the harm? Just because there's a .gay doesn't mean LGBT people are forever forbidden to use .com. It could make it easier in the long run. Sites like this could have a .com and .gay domain. I don't see what the issue it.

 

I put yes because I initially thought, "oh yeah, that'd be cool!" Then I read the first post and, yeah, it's a totally bad idea. The last thing we need is our own drinking fountain. It would be a step backwards.

 

Think of it more as a rainbow covered drinking fountain that was OPTIONAL where LGBTs could meet up, have a drink, and mingle. If they so desired, they could use the other water fountain.

 

What's to stop someone from making lgbtravel.com? I'm not saying having .gay is a bad thing, I just think it's completly unnecessary.

 

We cant really stop being a minority joey I think you *might* be confusing "second class citizen" with "minority". We are NEVER going to stop being a minority. We will always need to gather in big cities and online websites to meet in large numbers, something quite important for pairing up. Its quite different than having different drinking fountains than straight people

As for LGBT travel agency's, again, its not about "harmony" with fellow mankind. LGBT travel agency's are the places that specialize in...well, basically hooking up while on vacation If you want to "hook up" or "mate" or "pair" or however we are going to call it, you want a place specializing in LGBT people. At least i would rather take a gay cruise than a regular cruise if i wanted to find someone. But - this is not forcing every gay person to take a gay cruise, they can go take the regular cruise. Thats fine. Its a choice.

Im looking at all from the viewpoint of having the option if its wanted. More options =/= bad.

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Its all about hooking up Its different than black people being segregated from white people because the point of a "gay village" in a town is a place for LGBT people to meet eachother and hook up. The school system being separated into "white" and "black" was not for hooking up, it was to separate the two. Thats not the case here.

 

I'm just not a fan of the whole hooking up idea then ^ Oh well.

 

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The beauty is there are LGBT events, vacations, bars, groups, ect. for everyone. From the person who wants to hookup with a trick to the person whos looking for a partner for life. The latter is not as popular, because lets face it its harder to do , but all the options are there. Options, again, are good. I like having them.

 

I voted "no" because it is yet another redundancy that isn't necessary. If the website is a travel agency catering to LGBT clients, it is still a commercial venture. The simple fact that it is linked to the gay community shouldn't override the actual purpose of the suffix, which is to delineate what type of content the site features. .com are commercial sites (although the vast majority have nothing to do with commerce, ironically). .gov are government and department sites. .edu are educational. .org are organizations. So... what does .gay do? It overrides the actual purpose of the suffix that the site should have. A gay travel agency is still a commercial venture. It should still be .com. Gay Studies at UCLA is still an educational venture. Lambda Legal is still an organization. By attaching .gay to any of these, it is overriding the purpose of the suffix (and inherently the purpose of the site's contents) with the simple fact that it is LGBT-related in some facet.

Now, I suppose it would be fine if .gay was an option for sites that didn't want to conform to the above principle, sure. But how long will it take before someone finds a website with LGBT content and brings up some sort of suit when it doesn't have .gay attached. I doubt it would be long before some incensed fundamentalist parent took up this issue and demanded that anything gay-related be relegated to .gay. The only reason that pornography doesn't have to go by .xxx is because there's simply no way to regulate it. I can't begin to imagine how many porn sites there are on the internet. But gay-related sites (porn excluded) are vastly smaller and would be easier to regulate.

Just my thoughts. I think this is actually a good issue to discuss.

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I forgot to mention this in my earlier post. One way around this debate would be for websites that want to promote themselves as gay-affiliated to simply put .gay before their actual suffix. For instance... "www.emptyclosets.gay.com". Then there's no need for an actual addition, and it is totally optional as most people seem to want it to remain (and therefore also non-enforced). Plus, you could easily search things like "www.travel.gay.com" knowing that if people are following the trend, they will have put a .gay in there as well. Just a random thought.

 

my main fear for this is that people might create ways to filter out any .gay domain. What if a person who grows up in a highly anti gay household is struggling with their sexualty, and someone in their household has disabled the ability to go to any gay website. .gay just seems to make that easier.

 

Hmm, can you do that? If so, that is a good point

 

I don't support this simply because we're getting too many shitty domain suffixes like .aero.