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Google Maps allows you declare your allegiance. You can mark a business as LGBTQ+ friendly (why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed?). htt
by nox101 2y ago
Google Maps allows you declare your allegiance. You can mark a business as LGBTQ+ friendly (why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed?).
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/adding-lgbtq-friendly-and-transgender-safe-space-attributes-google-my-business/ https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/addi...
You can also declare a business as "woman owned/led"
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/empowering-women-led-businesses-map-and-around-world/ https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/empo...
and "black owned"
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348990/google-black-owned-businesses-maps-search https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348990/google-black-own...
- Shared404 2y agoSo, I'm very visibly queer and from the south. I have always been appreciative of gestures like this or in the parent comment - because it is not a safe thing there to assume that people would be accepting.
- neilk 2y agoI suggest you try steel-manning this. Imagine that the people who want these things have rational reasons for wanting them. What might they be?
- dsiner 2y ago[dead]
- vineyardmike 2y ago> why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed? That’s an easy question with an easy answer. Because it can’t be assumed. Because there are people (who own businesses) who are not friendly to LGBTQ+ people. And people (such as LGBTQ people) may want to find or avoid certain places. Is a good-faith interpretation of such a signal that it would be some sort of silly performative measure?
- _DeadFred_ 2y agohttps://www.queerty.com/wyoming-bar-calls-murder-gay-people-cure-aids-selling-merch-20210714 https://www.queerty.com/wyoming-bar-calls-murder-gay-people-...
- lodger 2y agoThank you for posting this. For those who didn't click through, its an article headlined "Wyoming bar calls for murder of gay people as “cure for AIDS” and are selling it as merch", and shows a picture of the bar's horrifically bigoted t-shirt. People who dismiss labels like "LGBTQ-friendly" as "performative moralism" (to use the term Paul Graham used multiple times in his article) have clearly never had their very existence threatened on a frequent basis simply because of who they are.
- Unbefleckt 2y agoThis stuff has always seemed deeply wrong to me, as someone that actually believed in the values I was told were right and proper.