Thanks for coming to visit! This blog is for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders ... and anyone else who fits under the general term "queer" ... and our non-queer friends and supporters ... who live in the area of Indiana that is near Louisville. I intend this area to be specifically Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, and Washington counties ... but if you are slightly out, or even way out, of these bounds your posts and comments are still welcome.
Ultimately, I hope that this blog can help network GLBT folks in this area, maybe even prove useful in bringing together one or several GLBT groups. Unfortunately, this area of Indiana is dominated economically and media-wise by Louisville, Kentucky, and this makes developing our own identities as Hoosier residents a bit more challenging. The same goes for our GLBT identities and sense of community --- GLBT organizations, institutions, and social life seems to be centered around Louisville.
There is one area, however, where it is very important that we remember that we are GLBT citizens of Indiana. Politics. Ouch, I said the dreaded p-word! Indiana has a constitutional amendment working its way through our statehouse --- through your statehouse --- that would prohibit any possibility of our current and future generations from having our same-gender relationships acknowledged by the Indiana legal system.
I suppose you have a right to be apathetic, but one reason I started this blog is to attract the sub-segment of our GLBT population that is willing to be politically active on GLBT issues. If the constitutional amendment makes its way onto a ballot for a vote by the citizenry of Indiana, I want our area to do its share in fighting to defeat this threat to our rights in the future.
This is not to say that posts that help us bring together social events, parties, and other fun stuff will be unwelcome --- quite the contrary! I hope that this blog will help develop a GLBT network and community in this region of the state, and social events are clearly part of that process.
Enjoy your visits to ajlopp.com!
