Generally, any LGBT friendly organization, company, school, or other type of entity interested in contributing to the LGBT Free Media Collective is welcome to join.

While there is no formal structure which overseas membership, the projects organizing the Collective may remove any partners which abuse either Wikimedia Commons or the spirit of the LGBT Free Media Collective.

Why join

• Access to a growing collection of media files - like videos and photos - which you can freely use in your work
• The more organizations that contribute, the larger the diversity and selection of media available
• Media, like photos from an old event, which you may not be using, but have available, could be incredibly valuable to an organization or cause
• There are NO obligations or requirements to commit financial or human resources
• It fits in closely with the philosophy of preserving heritage and history
• LGBT organizations has increasing need for quality media to use in online and offline efforts - especially as the popularity of Internet memes and visuals in websites increases - Wikimedia Commons provides an increasingly large collection of free media for you to use for these purposes
• Wikimedians are available to help you - and there are guides listed on the resources page

What to know upfront

• Review the requirements and expectations of LGBT Free Media Collective content partners
• Any files that you upload to Wikimedia Commons will be freely available for other people, companies, and organizations to use in their own media creation, publications, and basically anything they would like
  • This really does mean anyone and for anything - the only exceptions being that media from Wikimedia Commons cannot be used in libelous way or in violation of personality rights
  • Consider that while your ally organizations can and will use the files you upload, it is possible that organizations or people opposing your work may also freely use your files - again, so long as it is not in a libelous way or in violation of personality rights
• You should familiarize yourself with the basics of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (unported) free license and media rights and usage for Wikimedia Commons files

How to join

1. Confirm that your organization meets the collective's requirements
2. Review the recommended reading items
3. Consider adopting a policy similar to this sample policy.
4. Add your organization to the list of participants
   • If you are unsure how to do this - please leave a request on this talk page or contact an organizing project
5. Update the templates listed on this page
   • If you are unsure how to do this - a Wikimedian will take care of this for you without any need to make a request

Recommended reading

• First steps in using Wikimedia Commons
• Uploading to Wikimedia Commons
• LGBT Free Media Collective content partnership requirements and expectations
• Sample policy for LGBT Free Media Collective content partners to adopt
• Guide to content partnerships
• GLAM's guide to media rights and usage on Commons
• Wikipedia's guide to donating copyrighted materials to Wikimedia projects
• Converting video

Current participants

Potential content partners