User:Scarykitty/LGBT Business Categories

This page is an attempt to come up with a good starting category structure to organize the many articles related to LGBT businesses, products marketed to the LGBT community and LGBT business organizations.

Businesses

 * Olivia Cruises - lesbian/women's cruises
 * TigerHeat - nightclub promotion company in L.A.
 * Out Now Consulting - no LGBT categories (but yes a tag) - LGBT marketing firm
 * Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc. - LGBT marketing firm
 * Gay Financial Network
 * Most Category:LGBT tourism listings are companies that have no LGBT-company related category to them
 * Most in Category:LGBT-related media and subcategories are companies (this currently links up to LGBT culture. Sure, it's about culture, but it's about business too.
 * Category:LGBT bookstores

Business associations

 * National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
 * Greater Seattle Business Association - LGBT Chamber of Commerce

LGBT associations inside companies

 * Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft

Products

 * Gay Fuel - drink marketed to gay community
 * Dykedolls - dolls that represent alternative lifestyles

Broad LGBT and business/economy topics

 * LGBT marketing (which only has a category of Sexual orientation and society!
 * Pink money
 * Pink pound
 * Pink dollar (there is a proposal to merge all three)
 * Gay Mafia - currently only links up to LGBT terms and conspiracy theories

LGBT owned?
Mitchell Gold Co.

Leading proposal
Category:LGBT and the economy
 * Category:LGBT bookstores
 * Category:LGBT-related media
 * Category:LGBT nightclubs
 * Category:LGBT tourism

All above articles just get main category until more articles develop. Do not include Mitchell Gold.

Beginning thoughts
As a serial categorizer, I've noticed a need for a category on LGBT businesses, but not sure what to call it. To follow other structures, there would be Category:LGBT Economy and then other stuff under it LGBT Companies etc. The media companies like The Advocate have a place in LGBT related media, but three are others that could use an LGBT business category.

For a past discussion on the topic see this discussion of improving coverage of LGBT businesses and companies

Possibilities are: Category:LGBT Economy
 * Category:LGBT companies
 * Category:LGBT products and services

Of course the criteria would also be that it had to be a company that targeted the LGBT audiences and not a company that merely had LGBT ownership (thought that could be a different category.