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Hi, {{BASEPAGENAME}}, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies!

We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles of interest to the LGBT community. Some points that may be helpful:

• Our main aim is to help improve LGBT-related articles, so if someone asks for help with an article, please try your hardest to help them if you are able.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies|action=watch}} watchlist it].
• The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, peer review and a project-wide article collaboration, all of which you are welcome to take part in. We also have a unique program to improve our lower quality articles, Jumpaclass, so please consider signing up there.
• If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign LGBT topics.
• If you're planning to stay, have a square in our quilt! You can put anything you want in it.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you.

And once again - Welcome!

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Image:Gay flag.svgImage:Irish clover.jpg The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue XIV - February 29, 2008

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We have one new Featured Article this month - Emily Dickinson was recently promoted thanks to the hard work of Yllosubmarine! We also have 4 new GA-class articles: Ben Daniels, J. Michael Bailey, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Walt Whitman were promoted this month, but Dante's Cove was demoted.

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;Wikinews

Things are happening over at Wikipedia sister project Wikinews. First, Nicholas Turnbull became the first openly-Trans reporter to [http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:Accreditation_requests&oldid=583355#NicholasTurnbull gain (resounding) accreditation] by the Wikinews community. Second, project member David Shankbone is going to Rio de Janeiro at the invitation of the Rio Convention & Visitor's Bureau. Wikinews:Portal:LGBT

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;Lambda Book Report

Project member Moni3 has been working on the article for Barbara Gittings and noted that the Lambda Literary Foundation used the lead paragraph from Wikipedia, skillfully and lovingly written by Moni3, verbatim in the Lambda Literary Pioneers calendar. Moni3 contacted the Lambda Literary Foundation to let them know, and to ask if we could get a little write-up in the next Lambda Book Report. There is a preliminary text you can find here. Feel free to add to it. It should be no longer than 1,000 words, and it needs to be submitted by March 15.

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;New members

Let's give a big LGBT welcome to all our new members: {{User|Dylankidwell}}, {{User|Jay*Jay}}, {{User|Ftmichael}}, {{User|AgnosticPreachersKid}}, {{User|Phyesalis}} , {{User|Tullerk}}, {{User|Ravenwhitehorse}}, {{User|TigressofIndia}}, {{User|Yohan euan o4}}, {{User|Masculinity}}, {{User|Renegade Replicant}}, and {{User|Youngwebprogrammer}}!

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;User categories

Place yourself in a user category so you can collaborate with other LGBT/Allied Wikipedians!

• Mostly for allies of LGBT people; To place yourself in :Category:Wikipedians interested in LGBT issues, just add ? to your userpage and change the question mark to your username OR add this userbox by placing {{User:UBX/LGBTinterest}} on your userpage.
• Mostly for people who identify as either Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender; To place yourself in :Category:LGBT Wikipedians, just add ? to your userpage and change the question mark to your username OR add a userbox found at User:Xaosflux/UBX/Sexuality#Sexual orientation.

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;St. Patrick's Day

In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, why don't you consider improving one of these articles:

Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism, LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland, Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Recognition of gay unions in Ireland, List of gay and lesbian resource centres in Ireland, or any of the articles in our to-do list?

;Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month in the United States. Help us celebrate by improving History of lesbianism or Lesbian American history! You could also find references for women in our giant list of LGB people to be sorted.

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|align="center"|Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed unanimously with the support of 100 editors. Your kindness is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Wizardman, Black Falcon and jc37 for nominating me. — Horologium