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STEVE KORNACKI BE MSNBC’S THIRD GAY ANCHOR

Steve Kornacki has been named host of MSNBC's much buzzed about weekend roundtable show, Up. This mak him the work's third openly gay host. Rachel * lgbt host on msnbc *

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The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn. This mak him the work’s third openly gay host.

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MSNBC'S STEVE KORNACKI IS NETWORK'S THIRD OPENLY GAY HOST

Steve Kornacki has been named the new host of MSNBC's 'Up,' makg him the work's third openly gay host * lgbt host on msnbc *

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. 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. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.

Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp. Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn. It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people.

MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

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Cable news viewers wnsed the culmatn of his years-long g-out procs as a gay journalist and media personaly when h the mastream media after he discsed durg a panel at the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn's annual nventn Miami 2006. What do you see as your role, and that of other openly gay and lbian hosts on the work, to promote the cln of the issu? And how feels to worry about havg a succsful reer while beg openly gay.

In my younger years, when I was jt startg out, I was nstantly worried that any honty about me beg gay would rail my reer goals. It was not beg gay -- was about beg hont and thentic about the workplace that worried me. Rather, I choose to offer my support of the LGBT muny Rsia by gog to Mosw and hostg this event as a journalist, an anchor and a man who happens to be gay.

OPENLY GAY RACHEL MADDOW GETS AN MSNBC SHOW

MSNBC host Joy Reid on Sunday issued an apology for past blog posts that have been cricized as “homophobic” and “anti-gay.” * lgbt host on msnbc *

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) The same pani were given high rankgs this year by the Human Right’s Campaign Foundatn’s Annual Corporate Equaly Inx, which is more or ls a big gay stamp of approval for pani. Charlie Crist of Florida, that have been cricized as homophobic and “anti-gay.

THIS PRI MONTH, LGBTQ PEOPLE SERVE GAY RIGHTS, NOT A TEMPORARY LOGO

"From 2007 to 2009 @joyannreid thored a dozen homophobic posts not only attemptg to out Charlie Crist as gay, she attacked & mocked him for beg so, " @Jamie_Maz wrote the first of a seri of tweets about Twter er noted Reid repeatedly referred to Crist as "Miss Charlie" her posts and speculated that his 2008 marriage to a woman was a d and part of a “veep marketg strategy. "Among the equent subjects of my posts was then-ernor Charlie Crist, at the time a nservative Republin, whose posns on issu like gay marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl Florida shared headl wh wily mored reports that he was hidg his sexual orientatn, " Reid wrote her apology.

This is the state of the issu you re about, as told by anizatns promotg social change and other policy you want to unrstand the state of the unn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins, you should beg wh the new fac Congrs. Fellow newbie Reprenative Glenn Grothman has said lovg gay and lbian upl shouldn’t have accs to fay and medil leave to re for their loved on.

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This Pri Month, LGBTQ people serve gay rights, not a temporary logo.

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