From attacks on drag shows and a nightclub to viral moments of queer joy, this year was tly a mixed bag of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer news.
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THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
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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. Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist.
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.
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay and lesbian news anchors *
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 story reflects the views of this thor, but not necsarily the edorial posn of Fast 2010 to 2013, I was a gay, liberal mentator at Fox News. Sce I blend much better among the wir mix of liberal, morate, and gay folks there, I expected Chris Hay and Don Lemon to be nice to me, and they were.
I had no real power at Fox News, but would have been a much different place had more women, let alone gay women like me, held posns of ’s No Substute For Face-TimeThe broar lson I took away is the importance of cln and nnectn. The post, set to “You Might Not Like Her” by Maddie Zahm, shows Mchell stgglg to e to terms wh beg queer — om not unrstandg why she “eaked out” after kissg a girl to realizg that the feelgs she thought were romantic towards her gay male bt iend were about beg “attracted to femy. “I me out my sophomore year, and was jt this like, weird moment where I was like, 'Wa, do my reer le up wh where my heart is?
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * gay and lesbian news anchors *
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“The first uple of years I was dog TikTok, the ments were good, but wasn’t until later that thgs started beg polil — like wh the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, ” she not.
“Nobody was up arms about gay people for a few years after marriage equaly passed, but now ’s polil aga, and the dramatic ments and bat are happeng. 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.
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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. When one of the gay men suggted that there is no puttg the same-sex marriage “genie back the bottle, ” Kennedy agreed, sayg, “It’s not jt a matter of cultural cursy, is somethg that has reached cril mass and there is now cultural acceptance and rightly so.
In addn to Benson and Bce, there are others leadg active gay liftyl at Fox News. Shepard Smh, who officially me out a speech at his alma mater last year, said beg gay is “not a thg. 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.
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.
The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa’s July 23 natnal electn. * gay and lesbian news anchors *
Elsewhere, he explaed, “I take a libertarian posn on issu like gay marriage. The Fox News’ talent stable –– past and prent –– remas packed wh pro-gay libertarians (and some admtedly are self-proclaimed liberals) who often enjoy, at least for a time, reputatns as nservativ: Margaret Hoover, Megyn Kelly, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Jamie Colby, Chris Wallace, Kelly Wright, and even Fox & Friends weatherman Rick Reichmuth. Of all the Fox News Channel programmg, “The Five” has the hight nsy of pro-gay sentiment among s regulars: former host Eric Bollg, Dana Pero, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Greg Gutfeld, and Geraldo Rivera.
Both ci have large gay populatns, wh the natn’s pal boastg a higher nsy of gays than any state the unn. Baier was among three high-profile speakers to whdraw om the event after the homosexual activist group “Good As You” mpaigned agast Legat, llg a “very anti-gay anizatn of Catholics. In realy, Fox News and Baier were reactg agast the prence of another man slated to speak at the nference, Pl Darrow, a lifelong gay man and former ternatnal male mol who nverted to Catholicism, now liv a chaste life, and is a member of the Courage apostolate.
In sence, Fox and Baier publicly favor sodomy for gays over and above chasty.