PV Cyber Pride '99
By Bille
A year ago Pink Village was host to this century's
very first Pride Festival taking place in a virtual reality environment.
October 23rd-24th we will be hosting what will most likely be the very
last virtual Pride of this millennium! Get ready for PV Cyber Pride '99!
This far the Pride Committee members are Idealist and
Bille, but we are hoping that at least one more PV citizen want to join
us in planning out the main lines of this huge event. But we also need
your help even if you hesitate joining the committee, as individuals can
be PV's official host to specific events, or be in charge of certain matters
like the  booths
in Pride Park, prizes, advertising or whatever. Maybe you would like to
share some ideas or comments.
We look forward to preparing a great Pride with lots of
fun and events for all who attend. Remember, besides having fun, this Pride
is a nice way of showing people out there that it's not dangerous to mingle
with gays and lesbians:)
Here's how you can contribute:
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3rd member of the PV Cyber Pride '99 Committee
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Assistant on specific, less time consuming occasions
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Suggest events or even ideas for event details, effects etc.
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We are building a long mailing list of ppl who we think might
be interested to know when the Pride web page is ready. If you know anyone
that should be added, mail us their nick/name and e-mail address (they
will receive only 2 mails from us, but can subscribe to the official PV
Cyber Pride '99 mailing list if they like to get more info. Let's drag
our RL friends over here!:)
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Suggest communities/web sites/services etc. to whom we can
offer a booth in the Pride Park area. Mainly g/l/b/t related, but also
gay friendly AW communities can be suggested.
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Suggest prizes and who we can ask to donate them. In return
they will have their logo/web link in the Pride Park as well as on
the Pride web page, eventually even a booth.
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If you attended last year's pride, what do you think was
good, what was bad?
All of the above we would like to know before Sept 26th.
If you like to join the committee, we need to know no later than Sept 19th.
E-mail addresses can be found on top of this page.
PS: input is appreciated also from Pink Point readers
who are not registered as citizens or friends of Pink Village.
Any Angels Out There?
By Idealist
We are here, we are Queer, and sometimes we are even
Angelic!
Do you like to meet new people, and help others?
If so, we want YOU to join Pink Angels! The purpose of Pink Angels is
1) to serve as contact persons for the newcomers and visitors
to Pink Village
2) to give guided tours of PV, and show new people around
(you don't have to be extremely familiar with PV to do this -- you can
show others the places you know -- and you can give tours at your own convenience)
3) to help PV newcomers an visitors with the AW browser
(how to move, teleport, use the contact list, etc.) if they are also new
to or inexperienced with Active Worlds as a whole.
 If
you volunteer to become a Pink Angel, your AW nickname and your email address
will be posted on Pink Angels web page, as well as on some boards around
Pink Village.
Current members are the PV Councillors. Pink Angels currently
have a web page at http://www.fortunecity.com/village/radclyffe/54/pa.htm
, but if you'd like to take over the administration of the page, please
contact me (Idealist; riia@ix.netcom.com)
and let me know. If noone else would like to be in charge of the
web page, I will do that, at least initially; you can still volunteer to
be one of the Angels.
Show your community spirit and support, and join today!
:)
Your Personal Ads in PV
By Bille
Since PV was founded 2,5 years ago each citizen has
been in charge of a set of 3 billboards for personal advertising at squares
both in the Outland and on the Island. But - nobody has ever used their
boards.
Why would you be interested in such advertising? To tell
others where to find your PV buildings, of course! Or to lead visitors
to your personal web page. Or - simply to upload a cool picture for pure
decoration...
How does this work? You simply create a JPG no larger
than 25K, rather of horizontal format, and upload it to the web. Then you
run off to Press
Ltd's office at Trans Road to fill in your order. When the url to your
JPG, the description and the action line is known, those will be added
to 3 billboards located at different PV squares - 1 of these will be along
Pink Avenue on Pink Island.
You will be able to update your advertisement by uploading
a JPG update. If the action or description changes, you must submit a new
order. To avoid such extra orders, you could make sure that your JPG also
shows the coords.
Pink Focus: Eljay
By Idealist
Next several issues of PP will introduce various Pink
Village citizens to the Pink Point readers. First one in focus is
one of the first citizens of Pink Village, who is also a PV Council member.
 Eljay
(whose real world initials are LJ) is a 40 year old Australian male.
He is happily involved with his partner of 3 years (Warren), with
whom he lives in Adelaide, Australia. They have 3 children (who live
with their mother 1500 km away) aged 17,16, & 9, and 1 child who lives
with Eljay and Warren. The child is a 1-year-old German Shepherd/Blue Heeler/Kelpie/Corgie
cross, (and yes, that does make him a strange looking beast) who answers
to the name ‘Spock’.
Click
here to find out about Eljay's thoughts about Pink Village and AW.
Any comments or contributions to Pink Point,
especially gay/lesbian- and Pink Village related
stuff,
are highly appreciated!
© Bille
1999, Netscape 4.04
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