On Friday, 6 July 2012 at 04:56, Gillian White wrote:
The GenderGap list is about the gender gap - the gap in representation, involvement, participation, and acceptance of women on Wikipedia. We are concerned about it because of its impact on the encyclopaedia and on some people working in good faith on it. The sexual orientation and indeed, the sex life of those women and men is irrelevant. Individuals who are concerned to remedy the gender gap for the sake of the encyclopaedia might be male (gay or straight) or female (gay or straight) or anything else for that matter. To repeat, this gender gap list is about the gender gap. It is not about sub groups or sexual identification.
I don't think anyone involved in this has suggested to the contrary.
The point of the lgbt list is to provide an opportunity to discuss potential LGBT-related outreach and cross-wiki projects, and to provide a space for discussion of issues affecting LGBT editors including harassment/abuse issues if and when they occur. There is no "orientation gap" that needs fixing: there's no evidence that there is a systemic bias here. Instead, it's simply a space for co-ordination and collaboration.