On Friday, 6 July 2012 at 09:20, Michelle Gallaway wrote:
Also agree with the bit that the LGBQ list should not just be "gender gap for gays", if only because no special outreach is really required there, but there are still many issues that can be discussed. Except that we're all talking about that list here, rather than posting on it over there!
Outreach can mean different things: gender-gap-style outreach of "increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" (to quote the list title) and cultural outreach more like GLAM. There's definitely scope for people to work with LGBT cultural, historical and community organisations much like we work with GLAMs.
Not all outreach has to start from the position of "there's a problem that needs fixing"; outreach can start from "there's an opportunity to make the wiki better" too. (Not that those are mutually exclusive, obviously.)