Quote from: Dana Lane on November 02, 2009, 08:00:50 AMFairygirl, thanks for the link to that directory. That is actually kind of what I was thinking. However, I looked up LGBT friendly bars/restaurants and there was only one listing.

I know, same for my state and I know for a fact there are plenty of gay bars here 'cause I've been to most of them lol The thing is you have to be a member to be listed. I only just found out about the organization this year.

I tend to go along with Heather's take on this.  When I was CD I found that those places that catered to CDs charged a lot more for cheap versions of stuff that you could get elsewhere.  I wanted a crinoline during one weird phase.  A square-dancers' supply place had one for a quarter of what a CD/TV place wanted.  (Now, I'll admit that if you're looking for a rubber vagina to put in your underpants, there are a limited number of places to find one.)

My experience is probably no guide, but I have little else to go on.  I go to a business.  If I feel comfortable there, I stay and look around.  If I don't, I leave.  It somehow grates on my liberal soul to think I have to look in a specific directory to find places where I will be accepted as a human, a citizen, a taxpayer, a shopper, or a person.  I expect people to treat me with respect and, usually, they do.  YMMV.

But that's just me.

-   Grumpy old Kate

(What's the female version of a curmudgeon?)

a curmudgette? 

Like snowflakes, no two of us are alike.  I walk through the door without a thought of being discriminated against.  If I were, I would be surprised, indignant, might ask for a manager.  I wouldn't go back, and I'd tell them and anyone who wanted to listen, why.   None of these things have happened.  I don't hide my orientation.  Marcy and I show affection in public when we want, unless we're in an obviously dangerous place (you won't likely find us in such a place).
So, yeahhhh.....if they want to decal the window, I'll smile, but I want to go anywhere anyone does without having to give it a thought.



Bev

well a business that serves people should be friendly anyway right and in my opinion after switching over I wouldn't like to think of my self as I was before and or having any one other then who I told know that I went through this problem with my self. 

I like your idea. As an economic entity the trans comunity spends alot of money. That is clout if it is organized. Do it.

As has been mentioned, the NGLCC already does this to a degree.  And there is a LGBT hotel and travel guide that does the same deal for all that stuff, its pretty good.  And a lot of businesses seem to sport some sort of rainbow, but this is SF/NorCal, and its all good for business round these parts.

I'd also tend to think that people and companies that advertise in the big LGBT publications and TV shows, and networks even, would also be pretty open and all.