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ummminews T he L iberal M edia ? Fundamentalist "m agazine" riles Post readers by B o b R o eh r T he religious right continued its smear campaign against gays and same-sex marriage with an adver tising insert in 200,000 copies of the Nov. 21 edition of The Wash' Cameron that gays die at a much younger age than blacks. More than 1,000 people complained to the Post about the insert. “They were overwhelm ingly negative,” ombudsman Michael Getler ington Post. told E& P. The 24-page supple “It looked a hit like an editorial product,” he ment, carrying the name admitted. “You could argue that the disclosure BothSides, is billed as “a could have been larger. But the Post did not magazine that gives a commit a sin by accepting it.” voice to the kingdom of The G ay (Si Lesbian A lliance Against • G od and impacts the Defamation has had conversations with the Post larger culture with com about its advertising policy, regional media peting reason and a bib director Michael Young said. He suggested that lical worldview.” many reporters working for the newspaper were The small print said it unhappy with the company accepting some was “created solely by thing that was riddled with factual inaccuracies. Grace Christian Church Derek Grier, a D.C.- G L A A D also has been working with local and is not a product of area pastor and organizations to help them express their displea The Washington Post." It anti-gay activist sure with the Post’s decision to carry the insert. prominently featured One of the strongest Derek Grier, an African Ameri rebukes came ffom Jo can pastor at the little-known Miller in a letter to the Post church in the fast-growing outer and posted on her blog, suburbs of Washington, D.C. “Hiding in Plain Sight.” It carries the subtitle, “Jesus is A reprint of questions and answers with Focus on the Fami my co-blogger.” ly leader James Dobson suggested Miller argued that, in the deep pockets behind the carrying the insert, “the expensive venture. T he Post Post has given its impri declined to discuss the cost of the matur to the idea that it’s venture with Editor & Publisher. OK to oppress gay peo > i l i i i« < s w *M«a Articles recycled arguments ple__ You’ve amplified that sexual orientation is not an the drumbeat o f their immutable genetic trait, like skin hate and given it the The cover of BothSides magazine, color, and therefore should not veneer of legitimacy, he protected by law. It ignored an anti-gay advertorial stuck in bringing their inflamma an issue of The Washington Post the fact that religious belief is not tory, pseudoscientific genetic in nature and yet free last month horseshit that much fur- dom of religion i> afforded such protection. ther into the mainstream. Someone has to It obliquely cited the long-discredited stand up and say ‘no’ to these people It should “research” o f defrocked psychologist Paul have been you.” J H MwLm' A dvocate L for G ay J o u rn a lists D ies eroy F. Aarons, founder and first president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, died of a heart attack Nov. 28 near his home in Sebastapol, Calif. He was 70. He was undergoing treatment for bladder cancer at the time. He is survived by Joshua Boneh, his partner o f 24 years. Aarons rose to prominence in 1990 when he announced his sexual orientation to the Ameri can Society of Newspaper Editors and described the results of the first survey of gay men and les bians in news rooms. Accord ing to The New York Times, the results resonated widely because it was the first time such information had been dis cussed publicly in that impor tant professional organization. Statistics ffom the survey of 250 journalists indi Leroy Aarons founded gay cateli that fewer journalist organization AME RIC AN EXPRESS FINANCIAL ADVISORS Longtime relationship recognized. Long-term planning required. For a complimentary initial consultation call me today at 503 . 924 . 1990 . 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When the survey was repeated in 2000, three times that number considered their orga nization a good environment, and there was a 93 percent increase in the number of people who had come out on the job. “Because of Roy’s passion and insight, the N LG JA has made coverage of LG B T issues bet ter at news companies both large and small by creating a valuable resource for nongay jiximal- ists across the country,” said Eric Hegedus, pres ident of the National Lesbian and Gay Journal ists Association. “And the N LG JA has brought together a broad range of LG B T journalists ffom 24 chapters, giving us more opportunities for development and professional networking while providing us with the momentum to help make our own newsrooms more skilled in fair and accurate coverage.” Aarons was the director of a program on sex ual orientation Issues and the media at Univer sity of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. 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