> Because it is. Why would I even care about "queerness" (whatever it actually means) in an open-source project for a sound recorder or video player or game or

> Because it is. Why would I even care about "queerness" (whatever it actually means) in an open-source project for a sound recorder or video player or game or what have you? Part of what "queerness" means here is "Could our conference invite a technical speaker who happened to be gay safely? Or would the speaker be in legal danger?" Many organizations are committed to non-discrimination of various sorts. People's race, religion, or orientation shouldn't prevent them from participating in a conference. And this is often a written organizational policy in the US and Europe. And if such an organization decides to host a conference in a country where (like Tanzania) being gay might subject some of their members to life imprisonment, some of those people are going to ask, "Hey, don't we have a written, official policy against doing that?" Now, the complicating factor here is that large parts of Africa criminalize being gay, and obviously the Python community would like to hold some conferences in Africa. But at the same time, they presumably don't want to risk any of their members being subject to life in prison.