3 Lessons to Take Away from Ron Goldgate
Filed by: Bruce Parker
December 14, 2009 2:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/3_lessons_to_take_away_from_ron_goldgate.php

Being a contributor to The Bilerico Project is important to me for lots of different reasons. The primary one is that I passionately believe in what Bil, Jerame, and Alex started out trying to do here. I believe that they wanted to create a space where we, as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allied folks, could engage in hard conversations across and in various forms of difference. This goal is as important today as it was when they first settled on it. Perfecting our ability to have these conversations is essential to any hope we have of creating lasting social change.

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So, while I am at this point an infrequent contributor, I remain flattered and proud of being invited to continue contributing to this community. I share the above thoughts about my ongoing involvement with the Bilerico Project because an important theme in this post is that context matters. My involvement and the decision to publish Ron Gold's post aren't events that occur in a vacuum. This is all prefacing my contribution to the ongoing discussion of Ron Goldgate, as I have taken to calling it. As exhausting as this process has been in the only four days that it has been going on I believe that there are some lessons we can learn from it.