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A Question Regarding Turquoise

Hi Davodd, I hope you don't mind the intrusion to your talk page, but I had a question I couldn't find an answer to, and tracked you down as member #1 of the LGBT group, so I figured you might be the guy to ask!

I have noticed a lot of openly gay men (and women I think?) wearing turquoise jewelery (mainly rings). I was curious if there was some sort of a political/social reason for this? Or, is it simply a way of identifying oneself as gay so that others feel free to open up to you? Or, is it simply a fashion thing, and has caught on in the community?

I did some research to see if I could link it to the flag or something, but no luck there.

Any info would be appreciated - curiousity has got me! SnaX 20:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue IX - September 1, 2007 Message from Coordinator: It's been almost two months since the last newsletter came out, so there are a fair few people who haven't really been kept up with our project. I'd like to welcome all those who have joined and those who have returned, and strongly reccommend that you use the talkpage for any queries or problems you have. Happy editing! Article News The ongoing effort to create a comprehensive list of LGB people has begun to bear fruit - /A AND the /W-Z lists have been featured! Congratulations to Dev920 and SatyrTN who nominated them respectively. Please consider pitching in the the remaining lists to help us get them finished before the end of the year. Project News WP:LGBT now has an IRC channel! It is #LGBTProject on Freenode. Users without IRC or Xchat can use the java app at java.freenode.net to access the channel from their web browser. Hope to see you in there sometime! David Shankbone has taken a LOT of photos. An idea has been mooted to create a page for listing people who are willing to take images in their area on request, please give your thoughts here. Considerable discussion has recently been held on our coverage of same sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. You may be interested to read it. The list of LGBT people to be sorted has now been reduced by over 30%. Please help us with it, all of us adding just one person a day would have a dramatic effect! A gay cabal conspiracy ghost has been created to do with what you will. :) Member News Since the last newsletter was released, we have had more members been labelled inactive than who have signed up - please consider recruiting a few more people if you can, a WikiProject is only as good as its members. :) To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).

Fair use disputed for Image:Darkover Hawkmistress (cover).jpg

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