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- 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 POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYCHARLOTTE KLE
- GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- NEW YORK'S GAY BARS ARE STILL VAL, PECIALLY POST-COVID, OWNERS SAY | PRI AND PANMIC
- BACH SHEMTOV GAY, DATG, FOX 5, SALARY, HEIGHT, B
- MIKE WOODS B, WIKI, AGE, FAY, HEIGHT, WIFE, GAY, FOX 5, NET WORTH, AND SALARY
- NEW YORK'S GAY BARS ARE STILL VAL, PECIALLY POST-COVID, OWNERS SAY | PRI AND PANMIC
- MIKE WOODS FOX 5, WIKI, AGE, GAY, SALARY, NET WORTH
- SURPRISE! ABC FAY AND FOX ARE THE GAYT NETWORKS ON TV MUST GAY TVTHE WORKS WH THE MOST LGBT ARE ABC FAY AND FOX—ONCE NSIRED THE MOST NSERVATIVE CHANNELS ON TELEVISN. HERE'S HOW THEY BEME OUT AND PROUD. CAROLE LTONUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 07, 2013 5:45AM EST THE DAILY BEASTIT’S 9 P.M. ON WHAT TELEVISN CHANNEL IS YOUR TEEN MOST LIKELY TO SEE A GAY CHARACTER? IT’S NOT THE ONCE-SUBVERSIVE MTV. OR NBC, ONCE THE HOME OF FRIENDS AND WILL AND GRACE. IT’S ABC FAY AND FOX, THE WORKS LNCHED BY NSERVATIV, WHO HAVE THE MOST GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS ON BLE AND BROADST, RPECTIVELY. WHAT’S MORE, GLAAD SPECIFILLY CED ONE OF ABC FAY’S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE FOSTERS, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE DIRECTN THAT WORKS SHOULD FOLLOW. “IT’S IMPORTANT TO THAT THE SHOW REFLECT THE WORLD,” SAYS PETER PAIGE, ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND HEAD WRERS ON THE FOSTERS.GLAAD’S NETWORK RPONSIBILY INX (NRI) EVALUAT THE “QUANTY AND QUALY OF IMAG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) PEOPLE ON TELEVISN.” IN THE 2012-13 TELEVISN SEASON, 42 PERCENT OF ALL PRIMETIME BROADSTG HOURS ON FOX HAD LGBT CHARACTERS (SO ’S NOT JT GLEE), 33 PERCENT OF THE HOURS ON ABC HAD LGBT CHARACTERS, 29 PERCENT ON NBC, 28 PERCENT ON THE CW, AND JT 14 PERCENT ON CBS. ON BLE, ABC FAY CLOCKED 50 PERCENT OF S PRIMETIME HOURS WH LGBT CHARACTERS, FOLLOWED BY FX WH 40 PERCENT, SHOWTIME WH 31 PERCENT, MTV WH 28 PERCENT, TLC WH 27 PERCENT, HBO WH 26 PERCENT, USA 20 PERCENT, TNT 17 PERCENT, TBS 10 PERCENT, AND THE HISTORY CHANNEL G AD LAST, WH ZERO PERCENT. GLAAD ASSOCIATED DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAMENT MEDIA MATT KANE SAYS THEY WERE “SURPRISED” TO SEE FOX DO SO WELL, ALTHOUGH THE WORK IS FAMO FOR GLEE, ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND GAY-IENDLY SHOWS ON TELEVISN.MTV WAS THE FIRST BLE WORK TO EVER RECEIVE AN “EXCELLENT” SRE, WH S GROUNDBREAKG SHOWS THE REAL WORLD, TE LIFE, AND SKS. GLAAD PRAISED THE WORK FOR BEG “RELIABLY CLIVE” 2012-13, BUT DID MENTN THAT THE NUMBER OF LBGT CHARACTERS HAVE SCE CLED. ABC FAY, MEANWHILE, RECEIVED THE SEND-EVER “EXCELLENT” SRE OM GLAAD 2011 (FOR THE RERD, ABC FAY ONLY RECEIVED A “GOOD” SRE THE 2012 REPORT). KANE SAYS THE ABC FAY HAS TRANSFORMED “NSIRG WHERE THEY ME OM—ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A VERY, VERY LONG TIME AGO THAT THE WORK HAD A NSERVATIVE BENT AND SIMPLY ISN’T THAT WORK ANY SHAPE OR FORM.”PAT ROBERTSON STARTED ABC FAY AS THE CBN SATELLE SERVICE 1977 TO FOC ON RELIG PROGRAMMG. IN 1990, HE SPUN THE HUGELY PROFABLE CHANNEL OFF TO THE INTERNATNAL FAY ENTERTAMENT INC., WH THE NEWLY-NAMED “FAY CHANNEL” BEG THE PRCIPLE PROPERTY. THE PANY WENT PUBLIC 1992, AND THEN WAS SOLD TO FOX KIDS WORLDWI 1997 FOR $1.9 BILLN. CBN RECEIVED $136.1 LN OM THE SALE, WH ROBERTSON PERSONALLY RECEIVG AN TIMATED $19 LN, ACRDG TO CHRISTIANY TODAY. ONE OF THE VEATS OF THE AL, ASI OM KEEPG “FAY” THE NAME, WAS THAT ROBERTSON’S SIGNATURE PROGRAM, THE 700 CLUB, WOULD NTUE TO AIR TWICE A DAY ON THE WORK. IN 2001, FOX SOLD THE CHANNEL TO DISNEY, WHERE WAS RENAMED ABC FAY.TODAY, ABC FAY IS NOT AFFILIATED WH CBN EXCEPT FOR THE 700 CLUB, AND THE WORK AIRS A DISCLAIMER PRR TO THE BROADST THAT SAYS DO NOT ENDORSE THE VIEWS STATED ON THE SHOW. MEANWHILE, 2006, THE WORK REBRAND SELF WH THE TAGLE “A NEW KD OF FAY.”“WE WANTED TO REPRENT FAY A NTEMPORARY AND THENTIC WAY, BUT WE ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO N AWAY OM THE WORD FAY,” SAYS KATE JUERGENS, ABC FAY’S CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRINT FOR ORIGAL PROGRAMMG AND DEVELOPMENT. “I THK [SEXUALY] WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF OUR PROGRAMMG—I DON’T SEE GOG AWAY OM .”ENTER THE MORN ERA OF ABC FAY. ONE OF S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERIN TEENAGER, HAS THREE GAY CHARACTERS (AND A GUT SPOT BY CHAZ BONO), SWCHED AT BIRTH FEATUR A LBIAN CHARACTER, AND THE BREAKOUT H PRETTY LTLE LIARS HAS A MA CHARACTER, EY, WHO IS A LBIAN. PRETTY LTLE LIARS CREATOR MARLENE KG SAYS THAT WHEN ABC FAY APPROACHED HER TO ADAPT THE BOOK SERI TO A SHOW, SHE ASKED IF THE WORK WAS FORTABLE WH A CENTRAL CHARACTER BEG A LBIAN. WHAT’S MORE, KG DIDN’T WANT EY’S SEXUALY BE SOMETHG THAT F HER. “SHE JT SO HAPPENED TO BE GAY,” KG SAYS. BEG GAY IS “PART OF WHO SHE IS, BUT DON’T FE HER AND ’S NOT 100 PERCENT A PART OF WHO SHE IS.”THE FOSTERS, WHICH PREMIERED JUNE 2013, TELLS THE STORY OF A LBIAN UPLE RAISG SEVERAL CHILDREN, CLUDG THE BLOGIL SON OF ONE OF THE WOMEN AND SEVERAL ADOPTED AND FOSTER CHILDREN. GLAAD’S KANE LLS THE FOSTERS “A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A SHOW THAT HAS VERY DIVERSE CHARACTERS TERMS OF THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND THEIR ETHNICY.” IN FACT, THE SEASON FALE (SPOILERS), WHICH WAS FILMED JT DAYS AFTER THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT WAS STCK DOWN, FEATURED THE WEDDG OF MA CHARACTERS LENA AND STEF.“BY FAR, WE WERE THE FIRST POST-DOMA LGBT WEDDG ON TELEVISN,” PAIGE SAYS. IN FACT, THE SCRIPT THE WEDDG SPEECH WAS LEFT WH ELLIPS TO CLU THE SUPREME COURT’S CISN. BIS BOTH HAVG NSERVATIVE ROOTS, ABC FAY AND WORK TELEVISN LEAR FOX ARE TARGETG LENNIALS (AND YOUNGER)—A MOGRAPHIC THAT IS MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS THAN OLR GENERATNS. AMONG YOUNG ADULTS AGED 18-32 (LENNIALS), 70 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A MARCH PEW REARCH POLL. THE GENERATN AFTER LENNIALS, THE TEEN DIENCE THAT ABC FAY URTS, IS LIKELY TO BE EVEN MORE SUPPORTIVE OF LGBT RIGHTS.“THE TEEN DIENCE HAS EMBRACED THIS SHOW AND THIS FAY TO SUCH A GREE THAT THEY’RE CELEBRATG ,” PAIGE SAYS. “THEY DON’T SEE , AND THEY’RE NOT WATCHG THE SHOW THE WAY PEOPLE OF MY GENERATN ARE, WHERE THEY’RE LIKE ‘HOLY SMOK, I N’T BELIEVE THIS IS ON TV.’ THEY’RE GOG, ‘OH YEAH, THAT’S LIKE MY IEND JIM, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS. OR MY IEND BILL, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS.’ IT’S JT A PART OF THE WORLD THEY LIVE , AND I THK THAT’S SUCH A BETIFUL, BETIFUL THG.”BUT THERE’S A FLIPSI TO THAT: AMONG THE BABY BOOMERS, ONLY 38 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO THE SAME PEW POLL. MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF REPUBLINS, MEANWHILE, ARE OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A JUNE PEW POLL. THAT ULD HELP EXPLA THE HISTORY CHANNEL HAVG ZERO GAY CHARACTERS. VIEWERS OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL TEND TO LEAN REPUBLIN, ACRDG TO A 2012 REPORT BY YOUGOV BRAND INX, AS WELL AS TEND TO BE OLR, WH 39 PERCENT OF THE WORKS DIENCE BEG OVER 55 AND THE AVERAGE AGE OF S VIEWERS IS 49.4 YEARS, ACRDG TO NATNAL TV SPOTS.WHEN ASKED FOR MENT, THE HISTORY CHANNEL SENT A STATEMENT SAYG THAT THE MAJORY OF S NTENT IS “HISTORIL NATURE, AND PRIMARILY FEATUR PROGRAMMG THE HISTORY-BASED REALY GENRE. ADDNALLY, WE HAVE VERY LIMED SCRIPTED PROGRAMS, AND WHAT WE DO HAVE, IS HISTORILLY-BASED, SUCH AS VIKGS AND HATFIELDS & MCCOYS. BEE OF THE NATURE OF OUR PROGRAMMG, AS A WORK, WE FEEL IS APPROPRIATE AND SENSIVE TO ASK ANY OF OUR CHARACTERS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY (AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE).”IN THE MEANTIME, KANE REMAS OPTIMISTIC THAT THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND OTHER WORKS WH LOW REPRENTATN OF GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS WILL PROGRS MORE TOWARD CLN. FOR EXAMPLE, KANE, SAYS, TRANSGENR PEOPLE WERE ONCE “NEARLY VISIBLE” ON WORKS, AND NOW GLEE HAS MA UNIQUE A RECURRG CHARACTER, NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK HAS A TRANS CHARACTER, AND THE FOSTERS IS ADDG A TRANS CHARACTER NEXT SEASON.“THERE’S A LOT OF REALLY GREAT ORIGAL STORI OUT THERE TO TELL ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE THAT YOU’RE NOT GOG TO GET SIMPLY BY PUTTG ANOTHER GAY WHE MAN ON TELEVISN,” KANE SAYS. CAROLE LTON
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 POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYCHARLOTTE KLE
California Gov. Gav Newsom followed through on threats to fe a school district for refg to adopt state-approved curriculum that featured gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * gay fox 5 noviembre *
B o o p i n t e n s i f i e sI really like the gam were you jack off the furry creatur, no long stori, jt straight to the pot, I'm not even gay but the gam turn me on so much, I wish there were more gam like this! 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. "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.
Gav Newsom followed through on his threats to fe the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD), lnchg his next culture war attack agast nservative board members who rejected state-endorsed curriculum that allegedly mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk. "GAVIN NEWSOM CELEBRATES ‘INCREDIBLE’ STORE CLAIMING TO SELL ‘BANNED’ BOOKS WHILE STUMPING FOR BIDEN IN IDAHO A close-up of Amerin polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk (1930-1978) as he mpaigns for a posn on the San Francis Board of Supervisors September 1977. Opponents of the textbook argue that sex and homosexualy should not be tght materials for elementary school stunts, an argument emergg school districts across the natn as many ntue to clu LGBTQ+ ntent si the classroom.
Milk, the person ntentn, was the first gay man to w an electn San Francis. 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.
GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
The gay bar of the past was much different than the one we thk of today where every ch is vered rabow flags. So many have played and ntue to play a val role the cy. * gay fox 5 noviembre *
For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.
Todo lo ntrar, se trata la nmemoración una fecha históri para la unidad homosexual Sudaméri y particularmente Argenta. La primera Marcha l Orgullo LGBTIQ+ en Argenta se realizó en el 2 Jul 1992 y rnió aproximadamente 300 personas, en su mayoría, n los rostros cubiertos exigiendo “libertad, igualdad, diversidad” embargo, luego la maniftación pasó a celebrarse en noviembre, en nmemoración la creación Nutro Mundo, el primer movimiento homosexual Argenta y Améri Lata. El gpo pnero la fensa los rechos la unidad LGBTIQ+ nació el 1 noviembre movimiento creado en la déda los 60, posterrmente se transformó en el Frente Liberación Homosexual (FLH) y tuvo o prcipal referent al poeta Néstor Perlongher y al cror Manuel Puig.
Revery of gay bars [Pri and Panmic] The panmic vastated New York's bars and rtrants.
NEW YORK'S GAY BARS ARE STILL VAL, PECIALLY POST-COVID, OWNERS SAY | PRI AND PANMIC
Rob Schmt don't currently have a wife, and some have speculated that the former Fox News anchor may actually be gay part bee he's sgle. * gay fox 5 noviembre *
But the owners of so-lled gay bars are fightg back and lookg to be as important and val as ever as the panmic eas.
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NEW YORK - For many, a place lloquially known as a "gay bar" was the only place you uld go where you weren't pelled to lie about who you were. "The gay muny had nowhere else to meet publicly, " said Ken Ltbar, the -founr of NYC LGBT Historic S Project.
" But the gay bar of the past was much different than the one we thk of today where every ch is vered rabow flags. "Disorrly people were nsired homosexuals. But you uld easily argue that a certa black-and-whe photograph — showg a group of men beg nied a drk — laid the groundwork for the gay bars of today.
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SURPRISE! ABC FAY AND FOX ARE THE GAYT NETWORKS ON TV MUST GAY TVTHE WORKS WH THE MOST LGBT ARE ABC FAY AND FOX—ONCE NSIRED THE MOST NSERVATIVE CHANNELS ON TELEVISN. HERE'S HOW THEY BEME OUT AND PROUD. CAROLE LTONUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 07, 2013 5:45AM EST THE DAILY BEASTIT’S 9 P.M. ON WHAT TELEVISN CHANNEL IS YOUR TEEN MOST LIKELY TO SEE A GAY CHARACTER? IT’S NOT THE ONCE-SUBVERSIVE MTV. OR NBC, ONCE THE HOME OF FRIENDS AND WILL AND GRACE. IT’S ABC FAY AND FOX, THE WORKS LNCHED BY NSERVATIV, WHO HAVE THE MOST GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS ON BLE AND BROADST, RPECTIVELY. WHAT’S MORE, GLAAD SPECIFILLY CED ONE OF ABC FAY’S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE FOSTERS, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE DIRECTN THAT WORKS SHOULD FOLLOW. “IT’S IMPORTANT TO THAT THE SHOW REFLECT THE WORLD,” SAYS PETER PAIGE, ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND HEAD WRERS ON THE FOSTERS.GLAAD’S NETWORK RPONSIBILY INX (NRI) EVALUAT THE “QUANTY AND QUALY OF IMAG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) PEOPLE ON TELEVISN.” IN THE 2012-13 TELEVISN SEASON, 42 PERCENT OF ALL PRIMETIME BROADSTG HOURS ON FOX HAD LGBT CHARACTERS (SO ’S NOT JT GLEE), 33 PERCENT OF THE HOURS ON ABC HAD LGBT CHARACTERS, 29 PERCENT ON NBC, 28 PERCENT ON THE CW, AND JT 14 PERCENT ON CBS. ON BLE, ABC FAY CLOCKED 50 PERCENT OF S PRIMETIME HOURS WH LGBT CHARACTERS, FOLLOWED BY FX WH 40 PERCENT, SHOWTIME WH 31 PERCENT, MTV WH 28 PERCENT, TLC WH 27 PERCENT, HBO WH 26 PERCENT, USA 20 PERCENT, TNT 17 PERCENT, TBS 10 PERCENT, AND THE HISTORY CHANNEL G AD LAST, WH ZERO PERCENT. GLAAD ASSOCIATED DIRECTOR OF ENTERTAMENT MEDIA MATT KANE SAYS THEY WERE “SURPRISED” TO SEE FOX DO SO WELL, ALTHOUGH THE WORK IS FAMO FOR GLEE, ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND GAY-IENDLY SHOWS ON TELEVISN.MTV WAS THE FIRST BLE WORK TO EVER RECEIVE AN “EXCELLENT” SRE, WH S GROUNDBREAKG SHOWS THE REAL WORLD, TE LIFE, AND SKS. GLAAD PRAISED THE WORK FOR BEG “RELIABLY CLIVE” 2012-13, BUT DID MENTN THAT THE NUMBER OF LBGT CHARACTERS HAVE SCE CLED. ABC FAY, MEANWHILE, RECEIVED THE SEND-EVER “EXCELLENT” SRE OM GLAAD 2011 (FOR THE RERD, ABC FAY ONLY RECEIVED A “GOOD” SRE THE 2012 REPORT). KANE SAYS THE ABC FAY HAS TRANSFORMED “NSIRG WHERE THEY ME OM—ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A VERY, VERY LONG TIME AGO THAT THE WORK HAD A NSERVATIVE BENT AND SIMPLY ISN’T THAT WORK ANY SHAPE OR FORM.”PAT ROBERTSON STARTED ABC FAY AS THE CBN SATELLE SERVICE 1977 TO FOC ON RELIG PROGRAMMG. IN 1990, HE SPUN THE HUGELY PROFABLE CHANNEL OFF TO THE INTERNATNAL FAY ENTERTAMENT INC., WH THE NEWLY-NAMED “FAY CHANNEL” BEG THE PRCIPLE PROPERTY. THE PANY WENT PUBLIC 1992, AND THEN WAS SOLD TO FOX KIDS WORLDWI 1997 FOR $1.9 BILLN. CBN RECEIVED $136.1 LN OM THE SALE, WH ROBERTSON PERSONALLY RECEIVG AN TIMATED $19 LN, ACRDG TO CHRISTIANY TODAY. ONE OF THE VEATS OF THE AL, ASI OM KEEPG “FAY” THE NAME, WAS THAT ROBERTSON’S SIGNATURE PROGRAM, THE 700 CLUB, WOULD NTUE TO AIR TWICE A DAY ON THE WORK. IN 2001, FOX SOLD THE CHANNEL TO DISNEY, WHERE WAS RENAMED ABC FAY.TODAY, ABC FAY IS NOT AFFILIATED WH CBN EXCEPT FOR THE 700 CLUB, AND THE WORK AIRS A DISCLAIMER PRR TO THE BROADST THAT SAYS DO NOT ENDORSE THE VIEWS STATED ON THE SHOW. MEANWHILE, 2006, THE WORK REBRAND SELF WH THE TAGLE “A NEW KD OF FAY.”“WE WANTED TO REPRENT FAY A NTEMPORARY AND THENTIC WAY, BUT WE ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO N AWAY OM THE WORD FAY,” SAYS KATE JUERGENS, ABC FAY’S CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRINT FOR ORIGAL PROGRAMMG AND DEVELOPMENT. “I THK [SEXUALY] WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF OUR PROGRAMMG—I DON’T SEE GOG AWAY OM .”ENTER THE MORN ERA OF ABC FAY. ONE OF S SIGNATURE SHOWS, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERIN TEENAGER, HAS THREE GAY CHARACTERS (AND A GUT SPOT BY CHAZ BONO), SWCHED AT BIRTH FEATUR A LBIAN CHARACTER, AND THE BREAKOUT H PRETTY LTLE LIARS HAS A MA CHARACTER, EY, WHO IS A LBIAN. PRETTY LTLE LIARS CREATOR MARLENE KG SAYS THAT WHEN ABC FAY APPROACHED HER TO ADAPT THE BOOK SERI TO A SHOW, SHE ASKED IF THE WORK WAS FORTABLE WH A CENTRAL CHARACTER BEG A LBIAN. WHAT’S MORE, KG DIDN’T WANT EY’S SEXUALY BE SOMETHG THAT F HER. “SHE JT SO HAPPENED TO BE GAY,” KG SAYS. BEG GAY IS “PART OF WHO SHE IS, BUT DON’T FE HER AND ’S NOT 100 PERCENT A PART OF WHO SHE IS.”THE FOSTERS, WHICH PREMIERED JUNE 2013, TELLS THE STORY OF A LBIAN UPLE RAISG SEVERAL CHILDREN, CLUDG THE BLOGIL SON OF ONE OF THE WOMEN AND SEVERAL ADOPTED AND FOSTER CHILDREN. GLAAD’S KANE LLS THE FOSTERS “A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A SHOW THAT HAS VERY DIVERSE CHARACTERS TERMS OF THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND THEIR ETHNICY.” IN FACT, THE SEASON FALE (SPOILERS), WHICH WAS FILMED JT DAYS AFTER THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT WAS STCK DOWN, FEATURED THE WEDDG OF MA CHARACTERS LENA AND STEF.“BY FAR, WE WERE THE FIRST POST-DOMA LGBT WEDDG ON TELEVISN,” PAIGE SAYS. IN FACT, THE SCRIPT THE WEDDG SPEECH WAS LEFT WH ELLIPS TO CLU THE SUPREME COURT’S CISN. BIS BOTH HAVG NSERVATIVE ROOTS, ABC FAY AND WORK TELEVISN LEAR FOX ARE TARGETG LENNIALS (AND YOUNGER)—A MOGRAPHIC THAT IS MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS THAN OLR GENERATNS. AMONG YOUNG ADULTS AGED 18-32 (LENNIALS), 70 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A MARCH PEW REARCH POLL. THE GENERATN AFTER LENNIALS, THE TEEN DIENCE THAT ABC FAY URTS, IS LIKELY TO BE EVEN MORE SUPPORTIVE OF LGBT RIGHTS.“THE TEEN DIENCE HAS EMBRACED THIS SHOW AND THIS FAY TO SUCH A GREE THAT THEY’RE CELEBRATG ,” PAIGE SAYS. “THEY DON’T SEE , AND THEY’RE NOT WATCHG THE SHOW THE WAY PEOPLE OF MY GENERATN ARE, WHERE THEY’RE LIKE ‘HOLY SMOK, I N’T BELIEVE THIS IS ON TV.’ THEY’RE GOG, ‘OH YEAH, THAT’S LIKE MY IEND JIM, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS. OR MY IEND BILL, WHO'S GOT TWO MOMS.’ IT’S JT A PART OF THE WORLD THEY LIVE , AND I THK THAT’S SUCH A BETIFUL, BETIFUL THG.”BUT THERE’S A FLIPSI TO THAT: AMONG THE BABY BOOMERS, ONLY 38 PERCENT SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO THE SAME PEW POLL. MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF REPUBLINS, MEANWHILE, ARE OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACRDG TO A JUNE PEW POLL. THAT ULD HELP EXPLA THE HISTORY CHANNEL HAVG ZERO GAY CHARACTERS. VIEWERS OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL TEND TO LEAN REPUBLIN, ACRDG TO A 2012 REPORT BY YOUGOV BRAND INX, AS WELL AS TEND TO BE OLR, WH 39 PERCENT OF THE WORKS DIENCE BEG OVER 55 AND THE AVERAGE AGE OF S VIEWERS IS 49.4 YEARS, ACRDG TO NATNAL TV SPOTS.WHEN ASKED FOR MENT, THE HISTORY CHANNEL SENT A STATEMENT SAYG THAT THE MAJORY OF S NTENT IS “HISTORIL NATURE, AND PRIMARILY FEATUR PROGRAMMG THE HISTORY-BASED REALY GENRE. ADDNALLY, WE HAVE VERY LIMED SCRIPTED PROGRAMS, AND WHAT WE DO HAVE, IS HISTORILLY-BASED, SUCH AS VIKGS AND HATFIELDS & MCCOYS. BEE OF THE NATURE OF OUR PROGRAMMG, AS A WORK, WE FEEL IS APPROPRIATE AND SENSIVE TO ASK ANY OF OUR CHARACTERS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY (AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE).”IN THE MEANTIME, KANE REMAS OPTIMISTIC THAT THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND OTHER WORKS WH LOW REPRENTATN OF GAY AND LBIAN CHARACTERS WILL PROGRS MORE TOWARD CLN. FOR EXAMPLE, KANE, SAYS, TRANSGENR PEOPLE WERE ONCE “NEARLY VISIBLE” ON WORKS, AND NOW GLEE HAS MA UNIQUE A RECURRG CHARACTER, NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK HAS A TRANS CHARACTER, AND THE FOSTERS IS ADDG A TRANS CHARACTER NEXT SEASON.“THERE’S A LOT OF REALLY GREAT ORIGAL STORI OUT THERE TO TELL ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE THAT YOU’RE NOT GOG TO GET SIMPLY BY PUTTG ANOTHER GAY WHE MAN ON TELEVISN,” KANE SAYS. CAROLE LTON
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