Flutterby™! : QTV birthday bash.

We got invited to the QTV birthday month bash (press release) last night at Hotel Adagio in honor of Dear Diva getting the Clarence E. Swiggins Humanitarian Award. A very nice get-together, mostly the hard-working folks who put together QTV, great conversations with people who believe in their community. Very nice evening.

Got me thinking a bit about community too, QTV was once a daily show, now its monthly, and I'm wondering if part of that might actually be due to their success. Part of what brings a community together, like the gay community, is shared struggle. Much of the success they've found, from QTV reporters going on to mass-market jobs to the explosion of "queer culture" in the national sense of style, could mean that the need for a niche market is gone. Which is a damned shame, because there were some great bits playing on the tapes they had there.