{"id":1521,"date":"2009-12-08T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2009-12-08T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:19:55","slug":"dcs-lgbt-community-is-pretty-much-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2009\/12\/dcs-lgbt-community-is-pretty-much-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"DC’s lgbt community is pretty much dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lambda<\/a><\/p>\n

photo by allaboutgeorge<\/a>
licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Well, it’s official: DC’s lgbt<\/acronym> community is pretty much dead. Only a day behind<\/a> The Citypaper<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em> reported this morning<\/a> that Lambda Rising<\/a> will close its doors before the end of December 2009.<\/p>\n

The Post<\/em> article writes:<\/p>\n

Deacon Maccubbin, Lambda Rising’s founder, said that he has accomplished all he had intended when he opened the gay-oriented bookstore in 1974 and that “it’s time to move on.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while it feels like a strawman argument to say this it, I can’t help but feel it: Are you happy now HRC? We’ve finally been assimilated.<\/p>\n

I know, I know. More openness, being able to find a gay or lesbian section at Books-A-Million is a good thing so why do I say the lgbt community is pretty much dead?<\/p>\n

Simple: there is no real community focus any more. Yes, we have an “official” community center<\/a> but their outreach is so poor, and so overshadowed by other organizations that have dominated the community for decades<\/acronym> that even though I’ve been looking I had to find out about them by reading an article about another community institution closing.<\/p>\n

I will miss Lambda Rising. Just walking into the place all those years ago was a personal triumph and a key part of my history. And maybe I’m just whining but it’s hard to see yet another independent bookstore shut down, and doubly hard to see this one, so long a bright, safe place, go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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