Dare Together

I'm not going to lie, this is a bit of a cop out of a post.

I haven't posted anything on here in months, and that's not due to lack of thoughts! But lack of time and motivation. But as the school semester comes to a close, maybe I'll get back to a few of those drafts I started...

In the mean time, I'm posting the product of a final project for one of my media classes - for two reasons:
1. As a back up link if my prof can't open the file via e-mail (because we all know it will be the one time a server crashes or the file accidentally gets deleted or the internet goes up in smoke... we've all been there)
2. For my own reference and hopefully as a useful gateway for others.

I was able to research the Toronto based organization The Pink Triangle Press. I created an info-graph as a way of presenting my research.

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It is basically Canada's leading gay & lesbian media organization, and a great resource for LGBT history, culture, and community. It offers everything from an online newspaper, to LGBT friendly travel and business guides, television shows and even a dating site. Their vision and tag is Dare Together, and after reading up on their controversial history, one can respect their perseverance to become what they are today.

Now I'm not saying all this as a suck-up if my prof does stumble upon this.... those of you who know me, know that this is right up my alley.

Actually, while digging through a series of links upon links upon links during this project, I stumbled across the site for the Canadian Gay & Lesbian Archives (founded by the Pink Triangle Press...so it wasn't totally off topic). While looking at their site I got more and more excited about what it had to offer. Partly because it is so similar to the art organization I work for currently. I found so much of what I already do mirrored back at me, but at the same time eager to learn more. While the structure is similar, the content is different.

Who knows whether the cards will fall for myself to grab an opportunity to work with this organization but it was extremely refreshing to see that what I'm doing is leading me in the right direction.