Gayorzea: Discord Partner community for LGBT FFXIV players

[Danyawl]

If you guys just go to any general community, whether it's the reddit Discord, raiding communities, reddit itself and think about your own free company, raid groups or linkshells and search or watch for any animosity/ slurs/ jokes against not just the LGBT community but also against people of a different race or colour or whatever you can literally see a whole bunch of examples.

Maybe we just want to be away from all that. If we go into those places and object we get ridiculed, so we create our own spaces so we can just enjoy the game. Call it isolationism if you want, but that's something we feel the need to have, and as human beings we have a right to choose to be away from that shitty behaviour. That's why these places exist.

Gayorzea doesn't suffer from that toxicity & animosity. It doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, trans, black, white, from Japan, or from Brasil, Buddhist, Christian, atheist, whatever. No-one gives a crap. Since we're packed with members from all around the world, it's a pretty diverse community, and yes, we have straight people in there too. Honestly, I would wish that kind of atmosphere for any online community 'cos it is a real sodding nice thing to be a part of, and we're super happy with it.

I mean look at all these negative posts that we get in this thread just for having a community that's a real positive thing now for thousands of people, it's shameful.
Why is it shameful? Go and do the searches for yourselves. You can even remove LGBT out of the equation and search for racial discrimination alone and Gayorzea comes out on top compared to the FFXIV reddit Discord for example. So why ask anyone to sit around and tolerate the behaviour if they don't have to. It's win win, 'cos we get to be away from it and play the game in peace, and everyone else gets to make their shitty comments en masse and laugh and joke about how funny they are for it without any objections or input from social minorities or any moderators of those communities huh.

[Xtrasweettea]

Gayorzea doesn't suffer from that toxicity & animosity. It doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, trans, black, white, from Japan, or from Brasil, Buddhist, Christian, atheist, whatever. No-one gives a crap. Since we're packed with members from all around the world, it's a pretty diverse community, and yes, we have straight people in there too. Honestly, I would wish that kind of atmosphere for any online community 'cos it is a real sodding nice thing to be a part of, and we're super happy with it.

This sounds, I dunno, magical. I want this to be true… but my cynical self has a hard time believing it is true.

All right, true test here: how many Conservatives and open Trump voters do you have in your group?

[Rosentretter]

This sounds, I dunno, magical. I want this to be true… but my cynical self has a hard time believing it is true.

+1.

Can't believe this joke is 11 pages long now.

[REPROBEAN_CHILD]

If you guys just go to any general community, whether it's the reddit Discord, raiding communities, reddit itself and think about your own free company, raid groups or linkshells and search or watch for any animosity/ slurs/ jokes against not just the LGBT community but also against people of a different race or colour or whatever you can literally see a whole bunch of examples.
Maybe we just want to be away from all that. If we go into those places and object we get ridiculed, so we create our own spaces so we can just enjoy the game. Call it isolationism if you want, but that's something we feel the need to have, and as human beings we have a right to choose to be away from that shitty behaviour. That's why these places exist.

Gayorzea doesn't suffer from that toxicity & animosity. It doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, trans, black, white, from Japan, or from Brasil, Buddhist, Christian, atheist, whatever. No-one gives a crap. Since we're packed with members from all around the world, it's a pretty diverse community, and yes, we have straight people in there too. Honestly, I would wish that kind of atmosphere for any online community 'cos it is a real sodding nice thing to be a part of, and we're super happy with it.

I mean look at all these negative posts that we get in this thread just for having a community that's a real positive thing now for thousands of people, it's shameful.
Why is it shameful? Go and do the searches for yourselves. You can even remove LGBT out of the equation and search for racial discrimination alone and Gayorzea comes out on top compared to the FFXIV reddit Discord for example. So why ask anyone to sit around and tolerate the behaviour if they don't have to. It's win win, 'cos we get to be away from it and play the game in peace, and everyone else gets to make their shitty comments en masse and laugh and joke about how funny they are for it without any objections or input from social minorities or any moderators of those communities huh.

But wouldn't "We're accepting of people from all races, beliefs, and backgrounds. Harassment and abuse will not be tolerated," have the same effect? I'm also sure you can just remove people who disregard those rules. And just because people disagree on calling the channel "Gayorzea," [which sounds like trolling of the name "Eorzea" (e.g. Gaylo 3 sucks LOL )], that doesn't mean they condone the abuse

[Dualgunner]

It's win win, 'cos we get to be away from it and play the game in peace, and everyone else gets to make their shitty comments en masse and laugh and joke about how funny they are for it without any objections or input from social minorities or any moderators of those communities huh.

Handle it however you like. Honestly, Discord is a great place to make a server for anything you like, for any reason you like. You have my full support with this Discord.

Somebody in the thread said that their homosexuality wasn't just their sexuality, it was their identity, and good on them for that too. I think VanilleFang's point, and one I follow, is that my preferred future is where sexuality ceases to be an identity or a major character trait as it's treated now, but rather is just as important to knowing a person as knowing they like pineapple on their pizza.

tho tbh pineapple pizza lovers deserve burnination

KIDDING

am i really