The City of Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities will host a day-long community forum Saturday, November 10 at the Langston Hughes Center [get directions]. The forum lasts from 8 am until 5 pm. The event is free. "Delicious food" -- both breakfast and lunch -- is promised.

They ask, however, that you register online at the ubiquitous Brown Paper Tickets if you plan to attend. (So they'll know how much of that delicious food to have on hand, etc.)

The purpose of the commission is to

advise the Mayor, Council and departments about sexual minority issues, recommend policies and legislation, bring the sexual minority communities and the larger Seattle community together through long-ranged projects, and ensure that City departments fairly and equitably address sexual minority concerns as individuals and as a protected class.

The purpose of the forum (unofficially) is to give you a chance to advise the commission on all of those things.

Officially, however, the forum's purpose is presented with bullet points (since this is, after all, an official commission):

The goals of the forum are to 1) build on the conversations we had during the 2006 forums and 2) inform the City of Seattle broadly.  The topics in 2006 included health disparities, race, aging, parenting, gender, but there are topics we didn't get to that we hope to discuss as well. 

The format of the forum has an upper-case proper name, an acronym, and a website: Open Space. Study that as your homework.

[hattip: Aleksa Manila]