GLAAD IDENTIFIES ANTI-GAY DEFAMATION OFFENDERS OF 2006

[Ian David]

New York, N.Y., January 3, 2007 — The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today identified several of the worst media and anti-gay voices specific to a series of egregious acts of defamation against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in 2006. GLAAD’s President Neil G. Giuliano has put the media on notice to stop all anti-gay rhetoric that has fed a climate of hatred and prejudice against LGBT Americans.

“Every day, LGBT people are viciously attacked and slandered by those who create and or profit from anti-gay messages,” said Giuliano. “Such expressions of intolerance clearly have an impact on how people treat members of our community.” When these acts occur, GLAAD works with reporters, editors and bookers and producers to ensure their stories are fair and accurate, and speaks out publicly as an authoritative voice of anti-defamation of the LGBT community.

“The amazing and unprecedented visibility of our lives and the issues we face every day makes it imperative that GLAAD respond decisively to such blatant bigotry,” said Giuliano. “Every day, we are on the front lines of the fight to change hearts and minds, in sometimes easy, sometimes heart-breaking circumstances. The media has a responsibility to make certain our voices are heard and our community is visible. This will be achieved when we convince those around us that our lives and our relationships deserve nothing less than full equality and respect.”

2006 Anti-Gay Defamation Offenders:

Time publishes Dobson's Misleading Claims About Gay & Lesbian Families
http://www.glaad.org/action/alerts_detail.php?id=3942
Summary: Following widespread media coverage of the announcement that Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant, Time magazine made the unusual misstep of inviting anti-gay fundamentalist James Dobson (Focus on the Family) to contribute a column that, unsurprisingly, contained significant misrepresentations. Dobson's column – "Two Mommies Is One Too Many" – can be read at Time.com .

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