MISSION STATEMENT
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"Diversity Rules” is very much like the visions of the great men and women before us who affected change in our lives for the better.  Diversity Rules attempts to facilitate changes in the way people perceive the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ) community.  It gives voice to the LGBTQ community, its friends and supporters throughout the Central Leatherstocking Region of New York State and beyond.

While the primary focus of “Diversity Rules” is on the needs and concerns of the LGBTQ community, it will also address diversity beyond sexual identity, including gender, race relations, and equality for all.  “Diversity Rules” is a broad based publication appealing to a wide range of interests that also provides an outlet of expression for those outside of the LGBTQ community.

 This publication will also take seriously diversity among LGBTQ, not simply by understanding sexual identity as a form of diversity, but also recognizing that people who fall under LGBTQ are themselves diverse.  The diversity of the LGBTQ community spans issues related to ethnicity, gender, class, nationality, citizenship status, race, and regional differences.  This diversity within LGBTQ often creates as much friction and unrest within as much as diversity generally in society at large.

 “Diversity Rules” will recognize that there are people who have a strong affiliation with lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites or who may in fact be LGBTQ and yet use “queer” strategically to be more inclusive and to signal that not only are sexual identities and sexual practices fluid, but that there are cross-generational differences regarding these identities and practices as well. Diversity Rules& will be a vehicle for coalition building among a variety of people who fall outside of what is considered normal sexual identities, cultures and practices.