Letter From the Publishers Welcome to the 2015-2016 printed edition!
Each and every year we sit down and give our thoughts as well as say T ank You to each and every one of you that has supported us over the years. We also can’t forget our staff that works hard to help keep My Rainbow Pages going strong! My Rainbow Pages wants to applaud every single person and say a Special T anks for all your hard work and support that has been given from everyone.
To our readers, we’d like to point out our biggest issue that we have experienced over the years. Each year we ask you to be sure to let a business know that you got them out of My Rainbow Pages or any other publication that supports the LGBT Community. All of the publications are in your community for a great purpose. Whether it is for the news, enjoyment or as a resource guide like My Rainbow Pages, these companies advertise to show their support to the LGBT Community and it is a big step for some of the Advertisers. Our LGBT advertisers would like to feel they are making a diff erence. We at My Rainbow Pages would like to challenge the LGBT Community this year to be heard. If you can be seen in these business, then you can be heard. If you pick up our publication and don’t fi nd a business that you are supporting now or in the future,
you need to be seen and heard. You need to let Advertiser know they are appreciated. If the advertisers do not hear from you they may feel they didn’t make a diff erence in the LGBT Community and decided to try some other avenues in their advertising, so let them see and hear you. Over the past our staff has reached out to business that you asked us to contact about being an advertiser in our community. Some of the businesses are very open to us, we have had other businesses just hang up on us as soon as we mentioned the word gay. We have had some businesses make comments as I would never support the LGBT Community. Some of these are businesses that we have supported over the years and we will no longer support them again. We do our best to make sure we are talking with the owner or decision maker before contacting you with a response we were given by the business you asked us to reach out to. If you have a business you would like us to reach out to,
contact our staff at My Rainbow Pages (916)444.2322 or email us at
contact@myrainbowpages.com.
Terry Ashcraft Erik Whedbee
Make a diff erence in the LGBT Community, Be Heard and Not Just Seen…
To our Advertisers, let me be blunt and clear. Not everyone that uses gay resources are gay. T ere is a huge organization out there that has an estimate of two hundred thousand plus members called PFLAG. T is is an organization that stands for Parents Family of Lesbians and Gays. So when you don’t feel you received any business from My Rainbow Pages, keep in mind my straight friends, children, brother, sister, cousin, mom, dad, grandparents and anyone that I may have over looked would probably disagree with you. Just because they didn’t say anything to you about getting you out of My Rainbow Pages doesn’t mean they were not there showing support for the LGBT Community. No one will be coming into your business waving their arms and say I am gay and I got you out of a gay publication, just as a straight person is not going to come in waving their arm saying I’m straight and I got you out of the yellow pages. Privacy is everyone’s right, so remember that not everyone wants to be outed. T ey just want to come in and know that you as a business owner don’t care about their lifestyle.
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