Hi Fae,

Opabinia regalis and I both identified ourselves as bisexual women on our
question pages. Hope that's useful.

-Emily

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for highlighting it. Unfortunately there are a lot of pages to
> wade through with user questions, so things like being a woman or
> identifying as LGBT are handy things to mention in passing in the
> candidate statement. It certainly would influence my vote...
>
> I agree, as this is a critical part of the election this year it would
> be interesting to see an aggregation of gender and LGBT stats, or a
> "diversity index", for candidates and the eventual Arbcom elected, and
> to see this compared to past years. Perhaps if someone is writing up a
> Signpost article they could include this small bit of research? ;-)
>
> Fae
>
> On 24 November 2015 at 04:42, LFaraone <wikipe...@luke.wf> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 at 04:21 Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This year sees a much more interesting selection of candidates, though
> >> a lack of any *openly* LGBT candidates as far as I could tell from the
> >> statements.
> >
> >
> > Several candidates (myself included) mentioned our queerness in our
> > responses to the demographics questions asked by some editors. I don't
> know
> > if there's been any on-wiki aggregation of that data, however.
> >
> >   -- Luke // LFaraone
> --
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