Proposed Changes: Structural Inequity on Bilerico

[Shana A]

Proposed Changes: Structural Inequity on Bilerico
Filed by: Tobi Hill-Meyer
December 15, 2009 4:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/structural_inequity_on_bilerico.php

I responded in clear terms to Ronald Gold's article, explaining exactly how it is ignorant, hurtful, and bigoted. But it's clear from the discussion over the past few days that people weren't just hurt by the post, but a sense of betrayal from the Bilerico ed team's decision to post it in the first place. It's now being recognized as clearly a mistake and has been apologized for, but many are wondering what changes can be made so that a similar incident doesn't arise again.

In order to address that, I feel it's important to outline the structural inequities that allowed it to happen in the first place. Upon doing some serious consideration, I found a lot. Many of them are things that exist in the larger LGBTQ community in general, but for the purposes of this article I'm going to examine how they play out here.