I wouldn’t say that…

Just take a look at Philly’s Alycia Lane and Larry Mendte.

Let me know if you disagree, but “being Gay Live on TV” refers to , I think, Mr. Perez standing up to Gay bigots (Dennis Prager?) or simply being open about himself.

For example, if you were the anchor and someone comes on as a guest and says “all Gay men are pedophiles” and you respond with “I’m Gay, and I’m most assuredly NOT a pedophile” is that too personal for you? I would hope not.

His former partner should be criminally charged for hacking in to private e-mail. Yes, this is full of drama and for some reason the “straight” society does not pay the ultimate price that gay people have to.

Had this been a straight man whose wife or girlfriend forwarded personal information, he would most likely still have his job. Although I do not have any idea of what Mr. Perez is like to work with, he still has rights and the station has a responsibility to follow the Law.

I wish him peace and good luck as he sorts through the wreckage of his personal life and career which now the world seems to know all about and casting judgment.

The smoking gun here is the blatant contradiction in comments by management about his performance…in LESS THAN a month after the first but after the psycho ex tried to boil the bunny.

MARCH 3rd: “too anchor-like” and too ‘Brian Williams” in his delivery. [Even tho Perez job WAS as an anchor and Brian Williams was recently named in a poll as the favorite of the three network news anchors.]

MARCH 19th [after people, apparently including some at the station, got the e-mail]: “new” performance review: “too soft,” didn’t sound “main anchor-like” and smiled too much with co-anchor Laurie Jennings “like girlfriends.”

Courts don’t like such inconsistencies in employment discrimination cases. I believe Perez and I bet they will, too, IF the station doesn’t have the sense to reinstate him or settle before it goes before a judge.

And I admire Perez…..who, among many other good things I recall him doing over the years, stood up to that homophobic pig Dennis Prager and two other antigay nuts on Larry King a few years ago……. for being willing to expose himself to homophobic public criticism in order to fight for what’s right…for him and others in TV whose gayness starts to make their money-grubbing bosses uncomfortable.