MSNBC host Joy Reid on Sunday issued an apology for past blog posts that have been cricized as “homophobic” and “anti-gay.”
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- STEVE KORNACKI BE MSNBC’S THIRD GAY ANCHOR
- MSNBC'S STEVE KORNACKI IS NETWORK'S THIRD OPENLY GAY HOST
- MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
- OPENLY GAY RACHEL MADDOW GETS AN MSNBC SHOW
- THIS PRI MONTH, LGBTQ PEOPLE SERVE GAY RIGHTS, NOT A TEMPORARY LOGO
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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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 *
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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OPENLY GAY RACHEL MADDOW GETS AN MSNBC SHOW
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Charlie Crist of Florida, that have been cricized as homophobic and “anti-gay. "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.
THIS PRI MONTH, LGBTQ PEOPLE SERVE GAY RIGHTS, NOT A TEMPORARY LOGO
"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. Related: Supreme Court to le on same-sex marriageToday, more than 200 ln Amerins live a state wh marriage equaly for mted and lovg gay and lbian upl. Adam Talbot is a spokperson for the Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) civil rights anizatn.