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We may have to abstain from this one, but will point out that Knight and Star-worthy Cornelsen are holding their own against Rihanna and Chris Brown, who are also pretty cute. We're on the edge of our flinging seat! |
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The Us Weekly EIC can barely contain her excitement that her magazine has been nominated that GLAAD nominated her tab-rag for their gay-friendly coverage. She's so thrilled, in fact, that she squeals all about it in this week's editor's letter. Min has some stiff competition in Entertainment Weekly, CosmoGirl!, Newsweek and The Advocate, which - no offense - shouldn't really get an award for being gay friendly. Just saying… On a related note, we bet Star's EIC Candace Trunzo regrets that whole "not normal" gay kiss thing, huh? |
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» GLAAD Up On HuffPo
Damn! Those GLAAD girls sure are representin' over at Huffington Post! First head honcho Neil Giuliano is chatting about gay visibility in post-strike America. Then we have media maven Rashad Robinson chewing the fat on the use of queer sensationalism during sweeps season. The watchdogs are all over it! |
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» From Tranny To Friend…
New York Daily News made some ink-stained love with homo watchdog group GLAAD this week. The News garnered some GLAAD madness after running a headline reading Fooled john stabbed Bronx tranny". The gays raised such a stink that the paper changed its headline: "Slain transgendered neighbor 'a friend of whole building,' Bronx man says". When the News changes something, they really change something. The victim went from hooking tranny to prom queen. Incredible! [GLAAD] |
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The latest brouhaha comes after Rupert Murdoch's daily ran a story about gender transitioning in Iran. As you can see, the title's pretty inflammatory. The Post must have known the gays would be on their print-soaked asses, so we can't help but wonder if The Post has been using elementary taunts to woo the gay media watchdog. The paper is, after all, penned for people with a grade school education. (And that's why we love it!) |
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Los Angeles Times' Tom O'Neil ought to know better. The entertainment reporter - whose column revolves around award ceremonies of various ilks - recently admonished GLAAD for not including The Kite Runner in it's media awards. And gay activists aren't happy. Find out why, after the jump… |
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Homo media watch dogs over at GLAAD aren't pleased with John Gibson's anti-gay Heath Ledger remembrance: "Gibson’s remarks are vulgar and disgusting. It’s sickening that Gibson would exploit Heath Ledger’s tragic death to promote such hurtful intolerance." C'mon! Are we surprised? Gibson's a punk! |
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Pounce v. Ponder
For example, GLAAD released a statement within minutes of the actor's reported overdose. Meanwhile, it took the media watchdog four days to release a statement on the MRSA scandal. So, what gives? That's exactly what Michael Petrelis and his pals have been asking - and GLAAD has been answering. Excerpt from one of the non-profit's PR pros, Cerissa Cafasso: The MRSA story involved complex medical research. When we first heard of the story, we needed to get fully educated on all the issues. That's fair, although even we knew the story would blow up into a gay panic. It doesn't take a media activist to figure that one out… |
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Despite the fact that University of California at San Francisco apologized for its staph-related gay panic, the Concerned Women of America have extended an invitation to gay groups to "help curb the spread of a potentially deadly strain of Staph infection". Because Concerned Women for America (CWA) cares deeply for the health and well being of all Americans, CWA is sending letters inviting the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, GLAAD and Lambda Legal to put aside profound ideological differences with CWA — for the sake of the lives and health of their members — and to call for commonsense steps to help curb the spread of a potentially deadly strain of Staph infection. Um, right… |
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Trans Folk Top Lists
GLAAD announced its nominees for the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards yesterday in Sundance. We've included the entire list after the jump, but we'd like to point out that trans issues and people have a special presence: …Material based on transgender issues has earned a number of nominations this year — most notably the work of columnist Christine Daniels in the LA Times, nominated as Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Daniels received a fair bit of media attention in April 2007 as male sportswriter Mike Penner, who revealed in a surprising column that he was a transsexual male and would be undergoing a sex-change operation. Penner returned to the LAT — and her sports column — as Christine Daniels after the surgery and now blogs about her transition the blog, "A Woman In Progress." Similarly-themed articles in Newsweek, the St. Petersburg Times, and Salon and on TV on MSNBC, the Tyra Banks and Oprah Winfrey shows, 20/20 and the now-defunct Paula Zahn Live on CNN were also honored. If only GLAAD honcho Neil Giuliano and his gays were running Congress, huh? |
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Ann Coulter, Isaiah Washington and Bill O'Reilly - is this an asshole convention? No, silly! It's GLAAD's round-up of 2007's year in hate speech. The media watchdog compiled last year's most headline grabbing gay bashings, like when General Peter Pace called gays "immoral". Ah, sweet, putrid memories… |
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Get It?
Production honcho Frances Berwick couldn't contain Bravo's collective excitement: With over 80,000 subscribers and more than 3 million channel views to date, William's sense of humor and style have clearly struck a chord with the American public. The response to William on OutZoneTV.com has been overwhelming. His charm and sense of fun are infectious. People are asking to see more of him and his life. We New Yorkers will be seeing a lot of Sledd: he's reportedly packing it in and headed to the Big Apple. You've been warned. |
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Is It Enough?
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