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Published Thursday, 22-Jan-2009 in issue 1100
“I resigned from the planning committee of the Equality Summit because I felt that the press should be allowed into the entire conference. … It felt like the same old ‘secretive’ process that had happened during the No on 8 campaign.”
Veteran lesbian activist Robin Tyler on Dec. 30 protesting a decision to limit media access during portions of a big Jan. 24 summit in Los Angeles where more than 250 gay activists will organize and strategize on how to win back same-sex marriage in California. Summit organizers have said they are worried that media coverage could divulge strategies to gays’ opponents, though Tyler’s public resignation – and her turning over of internal documents to reporters – apparently has the organizers rethinking their decision.
“The Yes on Proposition 8 campaign filled the airwaves with deliberately misleading commercials. … The ads relied on scare tactics and spread inflammatory lies, including that the defeat of Proposition 8 would mean changes in schools and churches. These ads used misinformation to shape public opinion and helped sway voters to pass the discriminatory ban, in spite of various legal experts and mainstream media outlets uniformly denouncing the dishonest approach.”
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a Jan. 7 report, “Worst Anti-gay Defamation of 2008.”
“James Dobson, founder of anti-gay organization Focus on the Family, appeared on an episode of CNN Headline News and made false claims about Proposition 8, including that if the proposition failed, there would be a ‘spate of lawsuits against churches’ and ‘all textbooks would have to be republished’ and ‘everything in schools will change.’ The Museum of Broadcast Communications chose to honor Dobson by inducting Focus on the Family into the Radio Hall of Fame, despite his history of anti-gay rhetoric and lies.”
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a Jan. 7 report, “Worst Anti-gay Defamation of 2008.”
“(Fox News) host Greg Gutfeld and his guests grossly misrepresented serious medical concerns faced by transgender youth and laughed as one of his guests referred to transition as ‘turning a hole into a pole.’ Then Gutfeld criticized Ellen DeGeneres for announcing her upcoming wedding, saying Ellen should ‘shut the hell up about it.’”
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a Jan. 7 report, “Worst Anti-gay Defamation of 2008.”
“(On) the nationally syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Jim Quinn made highly offensive and ignorant statements including ‘[G]ay marriage doesn’t produce anything that the state has an interest in. Gay sex produces AIDS, which the state doesn’t have – or should have an interest in. They should charge homosexuals more for their health insurance than they charge the rest of us.’”
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a Jan. 7 report, “Worst Anti-gay Defamation of 2008.”
“Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern made headlines … after telling a group of supporters that ‘the homosexual agenda is destroying our nation’ in a gathering of Republicans outside the Capitol. She went on to say that the gay community is ‘the death knell in this country’ and ‘the biggest threat that our nation has, even more so than terrorism.’”
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a Jan. 7 report, “Worst Anti-gay Defamation of 2008.”
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