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Contents:
- PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
- WHY AREN’T THERE MORE GAY FAC ON PHILLY TV NEWS?
- GAY PHILALPHIA
- THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
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Last week, a story broke which tailed alleged racist, sexist and homophobic ments ma by CBS executiv about employe at the work’s Philalphia statn. One of the alleged ments was that an employee was “too gay for Philalphia.
” PGN reached out to CBS Philly news anchor Jim Donovan, who is openly gay and has been wh the statn sce 2003, to ask about the alleged ments as well as the realy of beg LGBTQ the broadst news dtry.
You read the le ‘too gay for Philalphia’ the news; what was your ial reactn?
WHY AREN’T THERE MORE GAY FAC ON PHILLY TV NEWS?
I will say my first reactn was that I did chuckle a ltle b bee I thought ‘what do too gay mean? Look, I know that beg openly gay probably closed some doors for me; I know that some people may have had rervatns about hirg me, but fortunately my work stood for self and I got the jobs. They were the first to make sure those old homophobic Dr.
When I began my reer the late ‘80s, there were no openly gay reporters or anchors, at least none that I was aware of, and I lived New York Cy. You began your reer only a after works started to show gay people on TV news, much ls hire them.
It was tertg, bee when I got here, I knew Philalphia was the birthplace of gay rights. I remember someone said to me ‘there’s never been an openly gay person on televisn here’ and I said to them ‘what do you mean? This is 2003, ’ and they said that there had been gay people but nobody has known ; wasn’t broadst out loud.
GAY PHILALPHIA
I’d e om Columb, Oh before g to Philalphia, and we had a number of openly gay people on TV Columb. So if somethg was said behd the scen that he was ncerned about me beg gay, I still got the job anyway. Have fah that the ocsnal bigot or homophobe that tri to cut you down and block your path, is outnumbered by many more people who will want to help you and lift you up.
Addnally, Domb noted his PGN terview that he attend several Gayborhood fundraisers and worked wh the Gay Officers Actn League.
This clus servg as a gut bartenr at a Gayborhood fundraiser for the victims of the 2016 Pulse massacre Orlando and speakg as a gut at events for LGBTQ anizatns. This clus a genr-clive bathroom bill and a rolutn honorg Ra Adssa, a civil-rights activist and the first executive director of the Philalphia Lbian and Gay Task Force (PLGTF).
THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
Green’s bill outlawg public-acmodatn discrimatn the cy, which stemmed om a hearg on racism Gayborhood tablishments. But here’s what never gets churned: reports of zy drks among the cy’s gay TV a cy that ma natnal headl for s gay tourism mpaign, lol TV news remas one of the last closets.
To w: I was gog to approach a hunky lol weatherman about possibly hostg a public gay event I was anizg, only to have a mutual iend—one who has socialized wh said weatherman and his boyiend—retort, “Have you pletely lost your md? At least three members of Fox News belong to the natnal gay journalists’ associatn (as do Deborah Wooll of the Daily News, AP’s Philly-based assistant East edor Jeff McMillan, and yours tly).