Wordpress BOO!

LOL

I fell foul of Wordpress with my first blog. After about five months of collating information I was using to base writing about what I was seeing in international news about LGBT people, the blog was suspended for "scraping": copying articles from other places- despite full disclosure of origin etc AND the fact that I was sharing the information with a small group of people and only as a first stage in writing commentary on what I identified as "trends". Wordpress not only suspended the blog but have ignored my requests to have access to all the information I have amassed so that I would not lose all that work. I don't begrudge them taking the blog offline -I admit I didn't read all the terms and conditions (come on- who really does?), but I'm pissed that they won't let me get the information I had so carefully researched for so long.

SO...

I have a keen interest in the lives of LGBT people around the world, particularly as I realise how privaleged my life is here in UK by comparison: I am "known" to be Gay and experience little if any difficulties from that, I am protected by laws and have earned the respect of peers for my abilities and achievements rather than being defined by my sexuality. I am horrified by what I read in other countries- Uganda especially at the moment, but consider that there are nearly 80 countries where to be anything but heterosexual is illegal and where LGBT people face anything from state-sanctioned harrassment to capital sentences.

I am often critical of religions that use dogma as an excuse to act on bigotries. I do believe in "the divine", but I do not believe in some old white geezer with a long beard floating about in Cloud City! The reality must be more complicated than the bonze age codex known as "The Bible".

So: I intend to STORE articles of interest here TEMPORARILY as I develop my main writing project. I will be at pains to ensure that anyone who looks at the work will be able to find the original piece in its original context but I do not expect mass participation or partcular interest in my blog.

I hope sincerely not to fall foul of any rules here and that anyone who objects to the presentation of their work in this blog will simply contact me.

Wildeman

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