GLAAD to Fox News: Don’t return to our events until we discuss anti-LGBT bias
“If Kimberly and Jamie expect to attend future GLAAD events, they will first need to sit down with us to discuss Fox News’ embarrassing, biased and misinformed coverage of LGBT issues. The invitation is open. Fox News’s track record on LGBT issues is abysmal, and it makes no sense to me why any LGBT people or allies would want to be a part of that.”
Rich Ferraro, vice president of communications for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), referring to Fox News personalities Jamie Colby and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who attended GLAAD’s annual media awards event March 16 in New York City, from a statement issued to Equality Matters, an LGBT-focused component of the progressive Media Matters for America. (Equality Matters)
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