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[edit] InterPride and their old name
Because originally groups in the gay community had always called themselves "Gay" or put the word "Gay" (meaning Gay male) before the word "Lesbian", the acronym for the 'old name' of Interpride was given as IALGPC, switching the name so that Lesbian comes first. I remember when it was IAGLPC (we called it Eagle-Pick). This article appears more to have been copied from some form of publicity put out by InterPride. I agree it needs to be cleaned up to provide information and not to sound like a press release.
Greg 05:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Considering I founded the organization, created the first logo and letterhead, too, and served as the Executive Adminstrator of the organization for five years before we started calling ourselves "InterPride", I think I know what I'm talking about.
Yes, people called it the icky eagle-pick, because those were the days when you generally had acronyms that made a sound, or were much shorter than having to say "eye-aye-ell-gee-pee-see."
But, since I also came from the forward-thinking, grassrroots, liberal Boston queer scene, where we made a point of adding Lesbian in front of Gay, to be more politically correct and give equal status to queer women, (as opposed to making them come second or feel like they were second class citizens -- hey, not necessarily my sentiments, but the vibe of the community politics at the time of organization conception), that is precisely why I put the L before the G, when it was first the NAL/GPC. It was never IAG/LPC.
The only name changes that occured were the one at the 1985 conference and meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, from National to International, and I believe it was in Atlanta in 1999 that we just agreed to refer to the org as InterPride.
Though we might have voted to refer to the organization as InterPride (as opposed to adding yet more labels to the name), I suspect we're still incorporated as a 501(c)(3) as IAL/GPC, unless someone filed a name change with the IRS, or the original incorporation lapsed and thus, when it was filed in Texas, the name was changed to InterPride.
Marsha H. Levine
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mhlevine (talk • contribs) 21:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think the slash in the article title is unnecessary and distracting. Name ambiguity is why Wikipedia has the redirect function; both IALGPC and IAGLPC, being (I think) fairly unique acronyms, can be made to redirect to InterPride (which I believe is the organization's current name).
