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Gay cable network here! isn't having GLAAD's straight-washing of their Media Awards. Despite describing itself as dedicated to "promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of [LGBT] people and events in the media", the watchdog group refuses to include gay programming in their nominations. To protest this queer contradiction, here! has yanked their support of the annual event.
Jasmyne Cannick reports:
[here!] sent out a notice via e-mail to their actors, writers, directors and producers stating that the network will no longer support the GLAAD Media Awards or GLAAD until their policy of excluding gay media is changed to be “fair and inclusive.”Here, here, "here!"
When announcing the nominations last January, GLAAD president Neil G. Giuliano lauded the selection:
These bold projects, images and voices have once again raised the bar for excellence in media representations of our lives. As we continue to fight against forces that threaten our progress toward equality, it's gratifying to be able to celebrate the creative accomplishments of those who are committed to sharing the truth of our lives and our stories.If GLAAD's all about "sharing the truth of our lives and our stories", wouldn't it make sense to include some gay voices? Surely they know the truth of faggotry more than an executive for ABC's Brothers and Sisters, one of the nominees. Not according to the event's mission:
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives.This, of course, goes against the organization's overarching manifesto of "inclusion". Perhaps gay media's too edgy for the family friendly GLAAD. As one here! executive tells Cannick:
It is a defining moment when a LGBT civil rights organization equates mainstream and straight as synonymous implying that fringe and LGBT are also synonymous.What's more, it intimates that the gay fringe doesn't deserve recognition or, more importantly, respect.
This, we feel, remains a problem in the largest gay organizations. They're more concerned with keeping a - pardon the pun - straight face in the face of homophobic imagery, rather than making waves and, thus, actual progress. They'd rather fit into a proper mold of the well-behaved, house broken homo. GLAAD feels it's energy's best spent celebrating a straight actor's portrayal of straight acting gay man than lauding a gay actor for playing a troubled sissy soul.
Why? Because they need big, straight dollars to keep themselves pretty. Considering Ford's recent retreat, however, GLAAD better be careful who they court. If they're not careful, they'll end up alienating all their sponsors. And where will that leave them? The dark, gay fringe. Unfortunately, they won't be welcome.
Some GLAAD activists will most likely come to the organization's defense, insisting here! has dropped because GLAAD has aligned itself with Logo: the MTV-owned gay network on which the awards have aired for the past three years. If this were the case, however, here! would have dropped a long time ago.
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This was a good move on the part of here!. I think GLAAD does some good work for us, but they are too quick to be the straight world's lapdog, while ignoring those of us who choose to be a little less forgiving.
Hopefully this will serve as a wakeup call to GLAAD and their ilk. Their "play it safe, don't rock the boat" mentality may earn them friends inside the beltway, but in the larger gay community that they presumably serve, especially in the age of YouTube and the blogosphere, all it's going to earn them is a fast track to irrelevance.
You people read Jasmyne Cannick?
I love gay community in-fighting like this. Here vs Glaad! Who will win? Who is supporintg Here? Who is backing GLAAD? A battle to the finish!
Meanwhile we still can't get married and get bashed all the time. Can't we all just get along?
(...and yes...I know that I didn't capitalize/punctuate Here up above. Who cares about their silly brand name devices?)
my vote would be for GLAAD...no doubt.
if little here tv wants to play with the big boys, then they have to learn how to play like the big boys.
john waters was the best thing they ever had. can someone tell me what show here has that they think should be included?
and, i agree with the previous poster who said...who reads jasmyne cannick. isn't she the chick who stuck up for issaiah washinton, and yet wanted shirley q liquor to be burned at the stake? if it is...this chick ain't got no street cred.
i assume she must have a show on the here/there/everywhere/ network.
jack jett
GLAAD is one of the most counter-productive organizations in existence… it’s a shame they have to be the millstone around our necks.
I’ve stopped supporting them when they were protesting Eminem outside of the Grammy’s while Elton John was inside SINGING A DUET with him. The are experts in pointing out differences when we should be celebrating similarities. Bloated with their own pride, they constantly look at the individual steps without understanding of the entire roadway… and this is a prime example.
I applaud Here!. They are standing FOR something (the gay voice) rather than standing AGAINST something (defamation). A stronger gay voice will combat defamation AND the mentality that inspires it (rather than just the defamation itself).
“Here, here, Here!” indeed. This is what is known as “moving forward”.
To exclude gay programming from a gay awards event seems completely hypocritical to me. Good way to piss off the fags by excluding gay programming from your "support the gays" awards show.
gay corporate incest is best.
jack jett
can someone tell me what show here has that they think should be included?
That's my problem with this story. Perhaps there's a really great movie from Here! that I've missed, but based on what I've seen from the network I would have been surprised if they got any kudos from GLAAD, gay media or not.
GLAAD has always been focused on what straight people are saying about LGBT folk. Their media awards isn't about what LGBT consumers would like to see more of but what we would like straight audiences to see more often.
Hello everyone, wanna be part of some kind of community, possible here? anyone here?