Shepard Smh, Fox News's Only Gay Anchor, Has Left the Network

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• FOX NEWS HOSTS CONFED ABOUT WHETHER TO CALL GAY MAN MR. OR MS.
• FORMER FOX AND CBS NEWS ANCHOR DISH ON HIS NEW LIFE AS A GAY PORN STAR — ‘I AM JT AS FORTABLE A SU AS AM A JOCKSTRAP’
• THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
• FOX CORP STAFFERS ARE FED UP WH FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” LGBTQ COVERAGEFOX CORP'S ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ WORKERS AND ALLI NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE.BY CHARLOTTE KLEAPRIL 14, 2022ENTRANCE TO FOX NEWS HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.BY ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS HAVE APPARENTLY ALIENATED THEIR OWN LLEAGU WH THEIR VERAGE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN. IN A RARE STANCE OF FOX CORP EMPLOYE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THEIR OWN EMPLOYER’S VERAGE, FOX PRI—THE ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ+ WORKERS AND ALLI ACROSS FOX BRANDS—NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY DTRY GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE AND NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST THIS WEEK. “FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” THE FOX PRI BOARD WROTE THE APRIL 5 STATEMENT TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH, ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLUS EMPLOYE OM FOX BRANDS SUCH AS FOX NEWS AND FOX WEATHER.FOX PRI'S STATEMENT WENT ON TO SUGGT FOX NEWS’ ON-AIR TREATMENT OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS AT ODDS WH THE VALU OF S OWN PARENT PANY. “WHILE THE TERNAL SUPPORT AND ROURC FOX CORP. OFFERS TO LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ARE AMAZG AND SUPPORTIVE, THE PUBLIC FACG MSAGG AND RHETORIC IS THE OPPOSE,” FOX PRI WROTE. “WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”PUT ANOTHER WAY BY ONE FOX SIR TO THE DAILY BEAST: “INTERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY. THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF ,” AND “THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .” THAT HYPOCRISY IS PART OF WHY EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” THE SIR NOTED, GIVEN THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”“WE ARE FULLY MTED TO EEDOM OF SPEECH AND EEDOM OF THE PRS BEE WE KNOW THE PREC RIGHTS AS WELL AS DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND OPN BENEF ALL," FOX CORP SAID A MENT TO VANY FAIR. FOX NEWS REFERRED VANY FAIR TO THE SAME STATEMENT.FOR MONTHS, FOX NEWS HAS BOLSTERED THE REPUBLIN PARTY'S NATNWI ATTACK AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS. FOX NEWS PERSONALI HAVE GONE TO BAT FOR FLORIDA'S “DON'T SAY GAY” LAW AND SIAR LEGISLATN THAT BAN CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN WH MISLEADG OR FALSE STATEMENTS. LRA INGRAHAM CLAIMED SUCH LAWS ARE “AIMED AT PROTECTG KIDS AND WOMEN,"  WHILE SEAN HANNY PHED THE WORK'S NEWT NTRIBUTOR CALYN JENNER, WHO IS TRANSGENR, TO LL FLORIDA'S ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL “MON SENSE." THEIR VERAGE TOOK AN EVEN UGLIER TURN WHEN DISNEY TOOK A STAND AGAST FLORIDA'S LAW, AS MEDIA MATTERS NOT. INGRAHAM CLAIMED DISNEY IS “GROOMG” CHILDREN, WHILE TUCKER CARLSON SAID DISNEY IS ACTG LIKE A “SEX OFFENR." TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.FOX PRI'S TERNAL MSAGE WAS PROMPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S CISN TO STRIP FOX CORP OF S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ-IENDLY EMPLOYER, DUCTG FOX’S RATG ON THE CORPORATE EQUALY INX OM 100 TO 75. "WE N NO LONGER ALLOW FOX CORPORATN TO MATA S SRE IF FOX NEWS PERSONALI AND NTRIBUTORS NTUE TO NY THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MIMIZE THE VLENCE TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS FACE, REFER TO PARENTS OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH AS PERVERTS, OR EQUATE LEARS OF LGBTQ+ DIVERSY AND CLNS EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS," HRC SPOKPERSON ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG "EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."FOX’S LGBTQ STAFF GROUP'S NOUNCEMENT OF FOX NEWS’ VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AND OTHER ISSU REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY OFFERS A VALUABLE GLIMPSE TO THE TERNAL DISSENSN ACROSS RUPERT MURDOCH’S MEDIA EMPIRE. FOX EMPLOYE OBJECTG TO WHAT THEIR EMPLOYER PUTS ON THE AIRWAV IS A RARE OCCURRENCE, TENSNS THAT RECENT YEARS HAVE BUBBLED UP RECENT YEARS OM CARLSON'S SEGMENTS. TWO LONGTIME FOX NEWS NTRIBUTORS, STEPHEN HAY AND JONAH GOLDBERG, RIGNED LAST YEAR OVER CARLSON’S SPECIAL ON THE JANUARY 6 RT AND THE BROAR RADILIZATN OF THE WORK. THE TOP-RATED FOX NEWS OPN STAR'S CENDIARY DOCERI ALSO PROMPTED REPORTED OBJECTNS OM POLIL ANCHORS BRET BAIER AND CHRIS WALLACE, WHO HAS SCE MOVED ON TO CNN+.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERCHARLOTTE KLE
• HOTON NEWS ANCHOR SHAR HE'S GAY & MARRYG A WEATHERMAN ON SOCIAL
• ‘I’VE GOT NOTHG TO HI’: FOX NEWS’S SHEPARD SMH TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY
• GAY ANCHOR SHEPARD SMH ABPTLY QUS FOX NEWS AFTER 23 YEARS"EVEN OUR CURRENT POLARIZED NATN, 'S MY HOPE THAT FACTS WILL W THE DAY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY BRANDON VOSSOCTOBER 12, 2019/7:48 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2396PX;WIDTH:3600PX;}STEVEN FERDMAN/GETTY IMAGNEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 17: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) JANE SKNER VISS "SHEPARD SMH REPORTG" AT FOX NEWS CHANNEL STUDS ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 NEW YORK CY. 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"RECENTLY I ASKED THE PANY TO ALLOW ME TO LEAVE FOX NEWS. AFTER REQUTG THAT I STAY, THEY OBLIGED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"UNR OUR AGREEMENT, I WON’T BE REPORTG ELSEWHERE, AT LEAST THE NEAR FUTURE," HE EXPLAED, ADDG THAT HE WOULD STEAD SPEND MORE TIME WH HIS PARTNER, GVANNI GRAZIANO, AND THEIR DOG. "BUT I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE MORE OF G AND LUCIA AND OUR IENDS AND FAY, AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT ALONG. THIS IS MY LAST NEWSST HERE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"EVEN OUR CURRENT POLARIZED NATN," HE NCLUD, "'S MY HOPE THAT FACTS WILL W THE DAY, THAT THE TTH WILL ALWAYS MATTER, THAT JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS WILL THRIVE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH'S ABPT PARTURE, WHICH VISIBLY SHOCKED SOME OF HIS LLEAGU, FOLLOWS REPORTED FIGHTG BETWEEN THE WORK’S NEWS AND OPN DIVISNS, EXACERBATED BY THE THREAT OF IMPEACHMENT RPONSE TO PRINT TMP ASKG UKRAE PRINT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY TO VTIGATE POLIL RIVAL JOE BIN. SMH'S REPORTG, WHICH WAS IMPARTIAL OR CRIL OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN, HAD CREASGLY PUT HIM AT ODDS WH MORE RIGHT-WG AND PRO-TMP FOX NEWS PUNDS LIKE TUCKER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH’S RIGNATN ALSO DAYS AFTER A MEETG HELD BETWEEN BILL BARR, TMP'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND FOX NEWS OWNER RUPERT MURDOCH. TMP NAMED SMH THIS WEEK A TWEET PLAG THAT THE WORK WAS “MUCH DIFFERENT THAN ED TO BE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“SHEP IS ONE OF THE PREMIER NEWSSTERS OF HIS GENERATN AND HIS EXTRAORDARY BODY OF WORK IS AMONG THE FT JOURNALISM THE DTRY," FOX NEWS PRINT JAY WALLACE SAID A STATEMENT. "HIS TEGRY AND OUTSTANDG REPORTG OM THE FIELD HELPED PUT FOX NEWS ON THE MAP AND THERE IS SIMPLY NO BETTER BREAKG NEWS ANCHOR WHO HAS THE ABILY TO TRANSPORT A VIEWER TO A PLACE OF NFLICT, TRAGEDY, SPAIR OR ELATN THROUGH HIS MASTERFUL LIVERY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH PUBLICLY ADDRSED HIS SEXUALY FOR THE FIRST TIME 2016, BEG FOX NEWS' ONLY OUT GAY ANCHOR. HE NIED THAT FOX NEWS EXECS LIKE OTED CEO ROGER AIL HAD FORCED HIM TO STAY THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I DIDN’T THK I WAS ," SMH LATER SAID OF HIS SEXUALY DURG A 2017 TALK AT THE UNIVERSY OF MISSISSIPPI’S MEEK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND NEW MEDIA. "IT’S NOT A THG. I GO TO WORK. I MANAGE A LOT OF PEOPLE. I VER THE NEWS. I AL WH HOLY HELL AROUND ME. I GO HOME TO THE MAN I’M LOVE WH."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN OM 1987 TO 1993. PRR TO 2016, SMH'S SEXUALY WAS TREATED AS AN OPEN SECRET BY THE MEDIA: OUT CLUD HIM S POWER 50 LIST AND HE EVEN ATTEND THE NATNAL LBIAN AND GAY JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2012 SMH FAMOLY ASKED ANTI-LGBTQ POLICIAN RICK SANTOM, WHO HAD PARED HOMOSEXUALY TO BTIALY, "HOW LONG DO YOU THK ’LL BE UNTIL YOU TCH UP WH THE RT OF THE UNTRY AND REALIZE EVERYBODY’S OKAY?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROTATG ANCHORS WILL REPLACE SMH ON FOX NEWS HIS AFTERNOON TIME SLOT UNTIL A NEW PROGRAM IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

FOX NEWS HOSTS CONFED ABOUT WHETHER TO CALL GAY MAN MR. OR MS.

He me out as gay 2017, beg the only out host on the work. Smh, particularly after the 2016 electn, reaed om edorializg his news livery, which was sometim cril of the Tmp reportage put Smh at odds wh more right-wg hosts like Tucker Carlson as well as the print himself, who directed his ire at the gay anchor an Augt spoke to the "polarized" nature of the untry his fal Friday sign-off. ”On the Fox & Friends morng program, hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmea and a ntributor stggled to unrstand that a gay man is a settg up a segment on what the right-wg work amed as a highly-anticipated hearg by the Hoe Oversight Commtee to discs ttimony om an unknown whistleblower om the Internal Revenue Service who would, acrdg to Republins, lay bare partmental rptn as pertaed to the handlg of rmatn surroundg Print Joe Bin’s only survivg son, Hunter.

Also, the myster wns “Works wh the IRS’ crimal vtigatns divisn” and “intifi as gay Democrat married to a man, ” the graphic stated.

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.

FORMER FOX AND CBS NEWS ANCHOR DISH ON HIS NEW LIFE AS A GAY PORN STAR — ‘I AM JT AS FORTABLE A SU AS AM A JOCKSTRAP’

Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay.

THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS

For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn. Former CBS anchor and Fox weatherman Jim Walker cid to make a few chang his life after beg told by his work boss that his -workers did not like the last 19 months, the once-clean cut journalist has transformed himself om a weather anchor to a silver fox name Dallas Steele, and has been turng heads the gay porn dtry sce he left his work job.

FOX CORP STAFFERS ARE FED UP WH FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” LGBTQ COVERAGEFOX CORP'S ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ WORKERS AND ALLI NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE.BY CHARLOTTE KLEAPRIL 14, 2022ENTRANCE TO FOX NEWS HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.BY ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS HAVE APPARENTLY ALIENATED THEIR OWN LLEAGU WH THEIR VERAGE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN. IN A RARE STANCE OF FOX CORP EMPLOYE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THEIR OWN EMPLOYER’S VERAGE, FOX PRI—THE ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ+ WORKERS AND ALLI ACROSS FOX BRANDS—NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY DTRY GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE AND NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST THIS WEEK. “FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” THE FOX PRI BOARD WROTE THE APRIL 5 STATEMENT TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH, ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLUS EMPLOYE OM FOX BRANDS SUCH AS FOX NEWS AND FOX WEATHER.FOX PRI'S STATEMENT WENT ON TO SUGGT FOX NEWS’ ON-AIR TREATMENT OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS AT ODDS WH THE VALU OF S OWN PARENT PANY. “WHILE THE TERNAL SUPPORT AND ROURC FOX CORP. OFFERS TO LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ARE AMAZG AND SUPPORTIVE, THE PUBLIC FACG MSAGG AND RHETORIC IS THE OPPOSE,” FOX PRI WROTE. “WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”PUT ANOTHER WAY BY ONE FOX SIR TO THE DAILY BEAST: “INTERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY. THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF ,” AND “THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .” THAT HYPOCRISY IS PART OF WHY EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” THE SIR NOTED, GIVEN THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”“WE ARE FULLY MTED TO EEDOM OF SPEECH AND EEDOM OF THE PRS BEE WE KNOW THE PREC RIGHTS AS WELL AS DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND OPN BENEF ALL," FOX CORP SAID A MENT TO VANY FAIR. FOX NEWS REFERRED VANY FAIR TO THE SAME STATEMENT.FOR MONTHS, FOX NEWS HAS BOLSTERED THE REPUBLIN PARTY'S NATNWI ATTACK AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS. FOX NEWS PERSONALI HAVE GONE TO BAT FOR FLORIDA'S “DON'T SAY GAY” LAW AND SIAR LEGISLATN THAT BAN CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN WH MISLEADG OR FALSE STATEMENTS. LRA INGRAHAM CLAIMED SUCH LAWS ARE “AIMED AT PROTECTG KIDS AND WOMEN,"  WHILE SEAN HANNY PHED THE WORK'S NEWT NTRIBUTOR CALYN JENNER, WHO IS TRANSGENR, TO LL FLORIDA'S ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL “MON SENSE." THEIR VERAGE TOOK AN EVEN UGLIER TURN WHEN DISNEY TOOK A STAND AGAST FLORIDA'S LAW, AS MEDIA MATTERS NOT. INGRAHAM CLAIMED DISNEY IS “GROOMG” CHILDREN, WHILE TUCKER CARLSON SAID DISNEY IS ACTG LIKE A “SEX OFFENR." TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.FOX PRI'S TERNAL MSAGE WAS PROMPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S CISN TO STRIP FOX CORP OF S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ-IENDLY EMPLOYER, DUCTG FOX’S RATG ON THE CORPORATE EQUALY INX OM 100 TO 75. "WE N NO LONGER ALLOW FOX CORPORATN TO MATA S SRE IF FOX NEWS PERSONALI AND NTRIBUTORS NTUE TO NY THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MIMIZE THE VLENCE TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS FACE, REFER TO PARENTS OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH AS PERVERTS, OR EQUATE LEARS OF LGBTQ+ DIVERSY AND CLNS EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS," HRC SPOKPERSON ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG "EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."FOX’S LGBTQ STAFF GROUP'S NOUNCEMENT OF FOX NEWS’ VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AND OTHER ISSU REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY OFFERS A VALUABLE GLIMPSE TO THE TERNAL DISSENSN ACROSS RUPERT MURDOCH’S MEDIA EMPIRE. FOX EMPLOYE OBJECTG TO WHAT THEIR EMPLOYER PUTS ON THE AIRWAV IS A RARE OCCURRENCE, TENSNS THAT RECENT YEARS HAVE BUBBLED UP RECENT YEARS OM CARLSON'S SEGMENTS. TWO LONGTIME FOX NEWS NTRIBUTORS, STEPHEN HAY AND JONAH GOLDBERG, RIGNED LAST YEAR OVER CARLSON’S SPECIAL ON THE JANUARY 6 RT AND THE BROAR RADILIZATN OF THE WORK. THE TOP-RATED FOX NEWS OPN STAR'S CENDIARY DOCERI ALSO PROMPTED REPORTED OBJECTNS OM POLIL ANCHORS BRET BAIER AND CHRIS WALLACE, WHO HAS SCE MOVED ON TO CNN+.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERCHARLOTTE KLE

"I am jt as fortable a su as I am a jockstrap, " Steele said  a recent turng his newly enhanced back-si — he recently got butt implants to match his new persona — on broadstg, Steele has participated six top-sellg, gay pornos and has even been nomated for several awards for his latt once has the 44-year-old looked back at his prsure-heavy and ratgs-based jobs televisn news, but that's not to say his new le of work is all pleasure. Dpe skyrocketg to fame a very short amount of time, Steele isn't whout his onle menter wrote: "If this is the gay mid-life crisis, I'd rather be straight.

"I'm sorry if the haters have cid that gays over 40 are supposed to put on the board shorts, move to the suburbs and settle down to bridge parti once per week, " he said.

HOTON NEWS ANCHOR SHAR HE'S GAY & MARRYG A WEATHERMAN ON SOCIAL

While the work still appeals to nservativ and tak plenty of flak om liberals, there has been a cidly pro-gay uptick on-air talent, edorial ntent and signalg. Kennedy Montgomery terviews a 'married' gay uple for a segment on her Fox News show.

Yet is gay iology that liv loudly Baier and his lleagu. On Monday, July 9, immediately followg Print Tmp’s announcement of his Supreme Court nomee, Kennedy Montgomery –– host of her own show, Kennedy, on the Fox Bs Network and who also appears on Fox News –– nducted a segment which she terviewed a “married” gay uple entled How Brett Kavangh uld affect same-sex marriage rights.

‘I’VE GOT NOTHG TO HI’: FOX NEWS’S SHEPARD SMH TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY

Her unwaverg support for gay “marriage” was displayed throughout.

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Smh’s homosexualy was long known to his associat, and his pro-LGBT attus ocsnally leapt out at viewers edorial ments long before his “g out.

GAY ANCHOR SHEPARD SMH ABPTLY QUS FOX NEWS AFTER 23 YEARS"EVEN OUR CURRENT POLARIZED NATN, 'S MY HOPE THAT FACTS WILL W THE DAY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY BRANDON VOSSOCTOBER 12, 2019/7:48 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2396PX;WIDTH:3600PX;}STEVEN FERDMAN/GETTY IMAGNEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 17: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) JANE SKNER VISS "SHEPARD SMH REPORTG" AT FOX NEWS CHANNEL STUDS ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 NEW YORK CY. 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"BUT I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE MORE OF G AND LUCIA AND OUR IENDS AND FAY, AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT ALONG. THIS IS MY LAST NEWSST HERE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"EVEN OUR CURRENT POLARIZED NATN," HE NCLUD, "'S MY HOPE THAT FACTS WILL W THE DAY, THAT THE TTH WILL ALWAYS MATTER, THAT JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS WILL THRIVE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH'S ABPT PARTURE, WHICH VISIBLY SHOCKED SOME OF HIS LLEAGU, FOLLOWS REPORTED FIGHTG BETWEEN THE WORK’S NEWS AND OPN DIVISNS, EXACERBATED BY THE THREAT OF IMPEACHMENT RPONSE TO PRINT TMP ASKG UKRAE PRINT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY TO VTIGATE POLIL RIVAL JOE BIN. SMH'S REPORTG, WHICH WAS IMPARTIAL OR CRIL OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN, HAD CREASGLY PUT HIM AT ODDS WH MORE RIGHT-WG AND PRO-TMP FOX NEWS PUNDS LIKE TUCKER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH’S RIGNATN ALSO DAYS AFTER A MEETG HELD BETWEEN BILL BARR, TMP'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND FOX NEWS OWNER RUPERT MURDOCH. TMP NAMED SMH THIS WEEK A TWEET PLAG THAT THE WORK WAS “MUCH DIFFERENT THAN ED TO BE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“SHEP IS ONE OF THE PREMIER NEWSSTERS OF HIS GENERATN AND HIS EXTRAORDARY BODY OF WORK IS AMONG THE FT JOURNALISM THE DTRY," FOX NEWS PRINT JAY WALLACE SAID A STATEMENT. "HIS TEGRY AND OUTSTANDG REPORTG OM THE FIELD HELPED PUT FOX NEWS ON THE MAP AND THERE IS SIMPLY NO BETTER BREAKG NEWS ANCHOR WHO HAS THE ABILY TO TRANSPORT A VIEWER TO A PLACE OF NFLICT, TRAGEDY, SPAIR OR ELATN THROUGH HIS MASTERFUL LIVERY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SMH PUBLICLY ADDRSED HIS SEXUALY FOR THE FIRST TIME 2016, BEG FOX NEWS' ONLY OUT GAY ANCHOR. 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PRR TO 2016, SMH'S SEXUALY WAS TREATED AS AN OPEN SECRET BY THE MEDIA: OUT CLUD HIM S POWER 50 LIST AND HE EVEN ATTEND THE NATNAL LBIAN AND GAY JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2012 SMH FAMOLY ASKED ANTI-LGBTQ POLICIAN RICK SANTOM, WHO HAD PARED HOMOSEXUALY TO BTIALY, "HOW LONG DO YOU THK ’LL BE UNTIL YOU TCH UP WH THE RT OF THE UNTRY AND REALIZE EVERYBODY’S OKAY?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROTATG ANCHORS WILL REPLACE SMH ON FOX NEWS HIS AFTERNOON TIME SLOT UNTIL A NEW PROGRAM IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

As far back as 2002, former Fox News heavyweight Bill O’Reilly said an terview wh gay-oriented The Advote that he, “uldn't re ls, to tell you the tth … You want to get married? ” Asked if he would oppose homosexual “marriage” if were legalized, O’Reilly said, “If you n get that changed, I'm not gog to jump up and down and say I thk 's wrong, bee I don't.

Elsewhere, he explaed, “I take a libertarian posn on issu like gay marriage.