Dear Jee, Fae and Geni,
Thank you all for your gracious contributions!
I have added most of them to our staging page on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis
(special thanks to Fae for adding his own)
This community-created love collection is coming along very nicely, thanks to all your diverse contributions.
We invite you to add your +1’s for suggestions you think are the most insightful, for sharing with a wide audience.
And we could still use a few more sounds and videos, if you know of any good ones.
We welcome your suggestions until Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at midnight PST. On Thursday, we will prepare a post with our top picks — and publish it on the Wikimedia Blog and on social media, next Friday, Feb. 13 -- just in time for Valentine’s day.
Thanks to all of you who are participating in this little experiment. Together, we may find new ways to curate and share information on specific themes, combining the wikis, our blog and social media.
Onward!
Fabrice
On Feb 8, 2015, at 4:57 AM, Jeevan Jose <jkadavoor@gmail.com> wrote:
There are an interesting selection about love in the LGBT categories
on Commons. Not surprising as most LGBT campaigning is about "love
rights". :-)
Here are a handful that I would like to see used more widely:
1.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fucking_IKEA.jpeg- This photo of two men kissing has an interesting background, as it
was created during a protest against Russian censorship of an IKEA
catalog that included a lesbian couple. Apparently the Russian
authorities feel that even acknowledging lesbians live together might
be promoting homosexuality, which is of course, sadly against the law
in that country.
2.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wasteland_company.jpg- The photographer (Kargaltsev) is well known for his photographs of
gay life and love in New York, this tense shot is one in a series with
the same couple.
3.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Um_beijo_gay_no_parque.jpg ~
"A gay kiss in the park"
- This is a classic kiss during a gay pride event in Brazil, and is in
use in several language Wikipedias to illustrate kissing and
homosexuality.
4.File:Kimbo Kissing Carolyn rszd.jpg
- Another image used to illustrate homosexuality on different
Wikipedias, a lesbian couple in the USA.
Cheers,
Fae
