Talk:North American Conference of Homophile Organizations

A fact from North American Conference of Homophile Organizations appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful"?

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For several reasons, I reverted a set of July 8 edits that had effectively reverted my own edits of the same date. My reasons: ¶ NACHO didn't attempt to extend itself to all "the Americas"--the reason for changing its name from National to North American was simply to accommodate Canadian members, including Vancouver's Association for Social Knowledge (ASK), which was represented by Douglas Sanders. (Decades later, he was to become well-known as a scholar of international gay rights developments.) ¶ There's no need to say "Kansas City" twice (much less without an appropriate comma after "1966"), and the reason for specifying "Missouri" is that there's also a Kansas City in Kansas. ¶ "Suspicious that men could understand the needs of lesbians" means that someone was suspecting that men could understand those needs--the exact opposite of what surely is meant to be said. That's why I had changed it to "skeptical about whether men could understand." ¶ Both words in "East Coast" and in "West Coast" as regional designations are customarily capitalized. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28capital_letters%29#Composition_titles . In any case, it's inconsistent to capitalize one word but not the other. ¶ The 1967 NACHO meeting was in Washington, D.C., not New York. Besides my own personal recollection, see, for example, http://www.gaycenter.org/community/archive/collection/048 and http://books.google.com/books?id=PatzOnRJCf4C&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22north+american+conference+of+homophile+organizations%22+1967&source=bl&ots=8AbnhnpfaI&sig=I3ee2-pvbZt4kH1VxvlbloNDbFQ&hl=en&ei=TOzfSq33K4ni8Qajx9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBEQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22north%20american%20conference%20of%20homophile%20organizations%22%201967&f=false . ¶ The word "is" is a verb, not an article or short preposition. Any style guide--including Wikipedia's--will affirm that, as a verb, it gets capitalized in any title ("Gay Is Good," "Black Is Beautiful") in which the other important words are capitalized. ¶ When an organizational name that includes a comma before "Inc." is used in mid-sentence, it's proper to put another comma after "Inc." That's because "Inc." is an adjective describing the organization and operating as a parenthetical phrase; parenthetical phrases customarily are set off by commas. See http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Comma . Wbkelley (talk) 05:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]