Gregory's ServerNever forget that things like "queer owned", 'black owned", "woman owned" businesses are still business and you still need to evaluate them as businesses. I've seen so many of these get away with poor business practices, extremely bad mismanagement, in some cases pure cluelessness at business and in other cases being outright scams and grifts. If someone is trying to sell you something, don't let having a common identity with them make you stop thinking of them as a business.
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If the business is sound it's GREAT if you can support businesses with marginalized owners but, well, you have to evaluate if the business is actually sound first If I say "this business isn't financially stable and has no plan to stop hemorrhaging money" and you say "they're just four queer people!" at that point you're like... basically infantilizing queer people, like we aren't capable of running a successful business or understanding how finances work. Like we shouldn't expect anything of our peers.  @lori yeah isn’t that also called “affinity fraud”  |
(This brought to you right now from people using Cohost being queer owned to try to guilt you from talking about their poor business choices but there's also a million other times I've thought about this. A queer grifter is still a grifter. Treat anyone trying to sell you anything as suspect until proven otherwise)