IBM Sponsors Gay Chamber of Commerce

Gfn.com News ^ | 5/22/2003 | Gfn.com News

[Jack Black]

IBM Sponsors Gay Chamber of Commerce

The nation's first National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce or NGLCC, said Thursday they will partner with IBM to launch a diversity development and procurement program to bring technology opportunities to GLBT-owned companies.

The program, says NGLCC, was inspired by the National Minority Supplier Development Council, or NMSDC, a certifying body for minority owned businesses, which creates development and procurement opportunities with major corporations.

"Since GLBT owned businesses do not qualify as minority businesses under NMSDC guidelines, tremendous financial opportunities are forfeited," said NGLCC's co-founder Chance Mitchell.

IBM will be the founding corporate sponsor of the NGLCC Diversity Development and Procurement Program.

"We are excited at the prospect of having a national organization that can effectively advocate on behalf of GBLT business owners," said Irwin Drucker, the program director for IBM's Gay & Lesbian Supplier Relations.

IBM is the largest buyer in the private sector, with purchases second only in total dollars spent to the federal government, and has been a leader in establishing corporate policies that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as well as offering domestic partnership benefits.

The move to launch the program comes as NGLCC has been meeting with corporate diversity managers and GLBT business owners, to determine if certification as a GLBT owned business was needed to create an avenue in which GLBT America can do business with Corporate America.

The NGLCC will serve as the certifying body for GLBT businesses and as the direct link to Corporate America for the purposes of diversity supplier contracts. The NGLCC expects to have the program operational by the fall.

Source: Gfn.com News

[Jack Black]

Wonder how this ties in with the outsourcing to India?

[Darksheare]

Gay Chamber of Commerce has so many bad images associated with those words.
The sound of it itself sounds bad.

[Paul Atreides]

IBM = International Butt Muncher

[Buffalo Bob]

Before long, only Indian Homosexuals will have IT jobs.

[Darksheare]

Intercontinental B@lltastic Molars?

[Cindy]

International Healing Foundation

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It's getting stupider and stupider.

Maybe that's how they'll stop. When the world laughs at you and not with you, your future is shakey.

[Capt. Tom]

IBM = International Butt Muncher

You can still call IBM Big Blew. -Tom

[Darksheare]

Sorry, the gays in my area do recruit.
Quite often.
They even had a hand in school curriculum that was going to teach third and fourth graders the "Joys of fisting, S&M, bondage, Gay lesbian and bisexual activites, beastiality," and other deviations.
Third and fourth graders.
Now if THAT isn't an agenda, what is?
And if that isn't recruiting, what is?
The PARENTS got wind of it, and slammed the school board, the school board backpedaled like a slapped dog. The curriculum was pulled, and they reinstituted the supremely dumbed down "Goals 2000" curriculum again. Yes, outcome based education.

[dark_lord]

Ummm...not to defend IBM here, but the article title is incorrect. The actual correct statement in the article body says: IBM will be the founding corporate sponsor of the NGLCC Diversity Development and Procurement Program.

They are "sponsoring" a program, not a particular chamber of commerce. And they are undoubtably "sponsoring" it because they are making money by doing so. IBM is like any other services firm -- you pay them money, they perform services. Gay people's money is as green as straight people's money. Heh heh.

[Ohioan]

Wonder how this ties in with the outsourcing to India?

I don't know, but any businessman, who chooses to build his business associations around sexual deviancy, must have some loose fasteners in his cerebral makeup. Why don't we send the whole NGLCC to India. Maybe the Hindus can figure out what to do with them. They are, after all, much more tolerant of 'sacred cows' than I can even pretend to be.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Ohioan]

It sounds like you need a new school board. Back peddling under heat, does not translate into the sort of judgment to which you can trust your children.

Frankly, what you describe, would seem to call for the criminal prosecution of someone.

[Darksheare]

That was threatened.
IIRC.
And they made the curriculum and all it's copies that they passed out to the school disappear.
(It was revived somewhat, however, brushed off and repackaged for college students at SUNY New Paltz. One or two 'conferences' on it and it's not been heard from since.)

[Van Jenerette]

Biological homosexuality is a myth.

[Salman]

Does the 'regular' Chamber of Commerce discriminate against gays? No?

[Archangelsk]

They even had a hand in school curriculum that was going to teach third and fourth graders the "Joys of fisting, S&M, bondage, Gay lesbian and bisexual activites, beastiality," and other deviations.

Unless you can point to a credible web address, like the minutes of the school board where this is discussed (not some stupid blog), I have a very difficult time believing this.

[johniegrad]

"Since GLBT owned businesses do not qualify as minority businesses under NMSDC guidelines, tremendous financial opportunities are forfeited," said NGLCC's co-founder Chance Mitchell.

Help me here. The "gays" want to have the same rights as others, i.e., to marry (even though that would really be special rights to marry a member of the same sex). So in that argument they insist that they don't want "special rights". Now in this argument they insist that they are maltreated because they are not given minority status. WTF??

[anniegetyourgun]

An obvious truth that cannot be restated enough.

[First Amendment]

Maybe the Hindus can figure out what to do with them. They are, after all, much more tolerant of 'sacred cows' than I can even pretend to be.

A couple/three (? my sense of time disappeared a while ago) years ago homosexuals in Australia had some big deviancy festival with a "Fag Hindu" theme and huge doctored pictured if traditional Hindu Gods and Goddesses. offensively portraying them as fellow perverts. It was extremely sick. People in India found out, and there were big protests. I saw a picture of hundreds of sadhus (Shaivites) wearing loincloths, with matted hair and tridents, protesting outside the Australian embassy. Very encouraging.

The vast majority of Hindus (those following tradition) are very conservative in the arena of sexual behavior.

[Darksheare]

Those who live in Orangw County New York remember it well.
Said school board now has a policy of deny deny deny.
Just like the Clintons.
You may have ahrd time believing it, that's your perogative.
But we here do remeber.
And memory takes a long time to die here.