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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:
I used to run a large sci-fi con. Really large. Not Comic-Con , but huge…for the 90s. We were big enough that we had a-list guests, a massive awards ceremony, and tens of thousands of daily attendees.
My first year as both a published pro, and running guest relations for the real pros, I contacted planned parenthood and the local gay health center, and gave them a free booth near the entrance. We gave out free condoms, and free tests offsite.
Subsequently, other local smaller cons started getting donations to have big condom baskets strategically positioned.
Of course, all of this was pre internet, a furry was one of our board members (and outstanding artist, I have a massive canvas of his), drag queens were part of my team, and I once sprayed an entire room full of Larpers with a soaker gun filled with “holy water” from the pool to make them all go to to their rooms, so nobody assumed evil intent when I brought condoms and tests.