GLAAD Call to Action Alert: NY POST ARTICLE

NY POST ARTICLE FEATURES
GRATUITOUS AND SENSATIONAL HEADLINE
January 25, 2008

The New York Post today ran a story about an ongoing criminal trial with the outrageous and offensive headline "Evil Lesbian Mom Left Toddler to Die Slow Death: DA."

The Post’s decision to describe the subject of this article using the phrase “evil lesbian” -- when it clearly would not highlight the orientation of a heterosexual suspect -- is the latest incident in the paper’s long, documented history of anti-gay slurs.

“The Post does it again,” said Rashad Robinson, GLAAD’s Senior Director of Media Programs. “Yet another inflammatory irresponsible headline designed to defame an entire community rather than inform the story.”

In addition, the story used the gratuitous and sensationalistic term "lesbian lovers."

After GLAAD contacted editors at the New York Post, its representatives refused to change the offensive headline on its website.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

GLAAD strongly urges you to contact the New York Post and demand that it change the online version of the headline to reflect the reality that the suspect’s sexual orientation is irrelevant to the facts of the case. Tell the Post you will not tolerate its continued disrespect for journalistic standards.

CONTACT:

Laura Italiano
Reporter
New York Post
laura.italiano@nypost.com

Michelle Gotthelf
Metro Editor
New York Post
mgotthelf@nypost.com

GLAAD Contact: Paul Karr, Director of Media of Field Strategy
Phone: (646) 871-8022 Email: karr@glaad.org

Read article here:

EVIL LESBIAN MOM LEFT TODDLER TO DIE SLOW DEATH

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Updated On: 1/25/08 at 08:52 PM

I could get behind a campaign to get the Evil Lesbian Mom to change....changing the headline isn't really going to help much.

As long as there's a New York Post demonizing lesbian mothers, there will always be a GLAAD.

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PJ I'm tempted to say that you really can't "demonize" someone who left their child to die a lingering death...they did it themselves.

Will they identify people as gay or lesbian if the story is a positive one, too? If so, ok. If not, then it's a double standard.

Similarly, the homosexual community has to accept that there are members who are less than wonderful. The whole response to Larry Craig was rather amusing to watch. The same people castigating him for his closeted hypocrisy didn't want to accept him as part of the gay community, either. Sorry, you don't get to pick and choose.

blah blah blah, you're just looking for reasons to be offended. It's getting old. Let's try and save our strength to fight something real, LIKE THE GOVERNMENT DENYING US EQUAL RIGHTS. silly headlines in the NY Post (which in my eyes is little more than the national enquirer when it comes ot credibility and journalistic integrity). Honestly, its just silly.

yeah cause god knows there are no gays that are limp wristed pre-stonewall fops.

But if I have to agree with Liverpool, I'll change my position.

Typical New York Post cartoons that use poodles, limp wrists, bouffant hair and prancing steps to depict gay men:

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The guy with the sheep is being interpreted as gay why?

Are you also assuming France is a gay country?

The only thing remotely associated with a gay stereotype there is the poodle in the first frame.

Updated On: 1/26/08 at 01:00 AM

Do any reasonable people really think there's ANY point of looking at GLAAD so as to get all upset and righteous about it? W-H-O C-A-R-E-S????

Just a thought...

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If you're stupid enough to take anything in that rag as something to get upset about, well then, Mr. Murdoch wins another reader.

I don't think the NAACP would react to that. I think the slight is in the interpretation by the reader. If it said "Evil Brooklyn mom" or "Evil Republican mom" or "Evil (pick your adjective) mom" it's all the same to me.