<b>Guy Benson is gay, but he don't really thk that matters.</b> The polil edor do, however, thk LGBT people should be more open to gay Republins — even as he thks gay issu prent a "real obstacle" for his party.
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- FOX NEWS' TAMMY BCE APOLOGIZ "AS A GAY WOMAN AND A FEMIST" FOR RIDICULG AUTISTIC BOYBCE LLED THE 10-YEAR-OLD "A SNOWFLAKE" NEED OF A "SAFE SPACE."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYMAY 17, 2017/12:24 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DAN AVERYMAY 17, 2017 / 12:24 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"FOX NEWS' TAMMY BCE APOLOGIZ \"AS A GAY WOMAN AND A FEMIST\" FOR RIDICULG AUTISTIC BOY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-05-17T16:24:35.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-05-17T16:24:35.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER A VIO OF MIKE PENCE ACCINTALLY BUMPG A YOUNG BOY WENT VIRAL LAST WEEK, ONE FOX NEWS NTRIBUTOR CLARED THE CHILD WAS A “SNOWFLAKE” FOR MANDG AN APOLOGY OM THE VICE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON FRIDAY, FOX NEWS’ TAMMY BCE CHID 10-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL, CLARG, “I GUS WE’RE GIVG BIRTH TO SNOWFLAK NOW, BEE THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT KID NEED A SAFE SPACE THAT ROOM.” SHE ADD THAT MICHAEL “PRETTY MUCH STALKED THE VICE PRINT AFTERWARDS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHEN TURNED OUT MICHAEL WAS ON THE TISTIC SPECTM, BCE TRIPPED OVER HERSELF TO APOLOGIZE “AS A GAY WOMAN AND A FEMIST.”FOX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON TUDAY, BCE ISSUED AN ON-AIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“FIRST OF ALL, I AM “SO SORRY TO THE FAY,” SHE TOLD VIEWERS. “MY TENTN WAS NEVER TO HURT A KID AND HIS MOM. WE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IA THAT MICHAEL WAS ON THE TISM SPECTM. AND AS A GAY WOMAN AND FEMIST, I HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE WORKG TO IMPROVE THE LIV OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND THOSE WHO ARE DISENANCHISED. I GET AND I APOLOGIZE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BCE THANKED MICHAEL’S MOTHER, DR. HERRERA-YEE, FOR BRGG THE MATTER TO LIGHT AND AGREED ’S BT “TO LEAVE KIDS OUT OF OUR POLIL DISCSNS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERRERA-YEE APPEARED ON CNN’S THE LEAD WH JAKE TAPPER ON MONDAY TO EXPRS HER OUTRAGE OVER BCE’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I WAS VASTATED WHEN I SAW WHAT THEY WERE SAYG,” SHE SAID. “THEY DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HIS AGE. THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHO HE WAS, BUT REALLY [WERE] TAKG OUT OF NTEXT A REALLY NOCENT TERCHANGE BETWEEN THE VICE PRINT AND MY SON.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DPE INTIFYG AS A LBIAN, BCE HAS PREVLY ATTACKED THE LGBT MUNY ON THE AIR: IN 2015, SHE MOCKED TRANSGENR CHILDREN BY SAYG, “THERE WAS A POT WHEN I WAS A CHILD WHERE I THOUGHT I WAS A CKER SPANIEL.” SHE'S ALSO REPORTED THAT NOT ALL GAY PEOPLE SUPPORT THE EEDOM TO MARRY, SOMETHG SHE THKS SHOULD BE RTRICTED TO HETEROSEXUAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE'S A SURPRISG NUMBER OF LGBT RRPONNTS AND ANCHORS ON FOX NEWS, ACTUALLY. EARLIER THIS MONTH, SHEPARD SMH SAID A SPEECH THAT BEG GAY DON’T IMPACT HIS WORK FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IT’S NOT A THG. I GO TO WORK," HE TOLD STUNTS AT THE UNIVERSY OF MISSISSIPPI. "I MANAGE A LOT OF PEOPLE. I VER THE NEWS. I AL WH HOLY HELL AROUND ME [AND] I GO HOME TO THE MAN I’M LOVE WH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
- 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 POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERCHARLOTTE KLE
- A FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR ON BEG GAY, THE GOP, AND RELIG LIBERTY
- HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DEMOT FOX CORPORATN FROM TOP WORKPLACE LIST FOLLOWG FOX NEWS COVERAGE OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, LGBTQ ISSU
- FOX CORP LGBTQ STAFF GROUP CONMNS FOX NEWS’ ‘HATEFUL’ RHETORIC‘DISHEARTENING’FOX CORP’S STAFF-WI PRI BOARD NOUNCED AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE THE ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC OF THEIR LLEAGU AT FOX NEWS.JT BARAGONASENR MEDIA REPORTERUPDATED APR. 25, 2022 1:37PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 13, 2022 6:20PM EDT PHOTO BY LUIS G. RENDON/THE DAILY BEASTFOX NEWS’ OVERTLY ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AND VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL HAS GENERATED OUTRAGE OM ELSEWHERE WH THE MURDOCH MEDIA EMPIRE.AN EMPLOYEE WORKG AND ROURCE GROUP FOR FOX CORPORATN’S LGBTQ STAFFERS AND ALLI EARLIER THIS MONTH NMNED THE NSERVATIVE BLE GIANT’S “HATEFUL” VERAGE OF THE NEW FLORIDA LAW AND ISSU SURROUNDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY. THE NUNCIATN WAS RPONSE TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (HRC) REMOVG FOX CORP’S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ EMPLOYER OVER S RECENT ON-AIR RHETORIC.“FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” READ THE LENGTHY MSAGE POSTED ON APRIL 5 TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH CLUS STAFFERS OM FOX NEWS, FOX WEATHER, AND OTHER FOX BRANDS. THE NOTE WAS VERIFIED AND REVIEWED BY THE DAILY BEAST. “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. WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”THE TERNAL SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY MEDIA GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE. THE MSAGE, LABELED AS BEG “OM THE FOX PRI BOARD,” RECEIVED DOZENS OF POSIVE EMOJI REACTNS OM FOX-WI SLACK ERS, CLUDG HEARTS AND VAR PRI FLAGS. IT IS UNCLEAR WHEN AND HOW THE NOTE OF NMNATN WAS SENT TO FOX CORP BRASS.CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS REPORTG? SUBSCRIBE TO CONFIR, THE DAILY BEAST’S MEDIA NEWSLETTER HERE.THE STATEMENT NTUED: “FOX NEWS IS ONE OF THE MOST WATCHED BLE WORKS THE NATN AND WE MT BE MDFUL THAT THE IMPACT THE WORDS HAVE ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY—PECIALLY YOUTH. LGBTQ+ YOUTH HAVE THE HIGHT RATE OF SUICI AND WORDS MATTER. HATEFUL WORDS AND GENERALIZATNS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S LIV. WE ARE WORKG TO ADDRS AND MAKE SURE OUR VOIC ARE HEARD.”AS THE PANY’S EMPLOYEE ROURCE GROUP, FOX PRI “SUPPORTS IMPORTANT TO THE LGBTQ MUNY AND FOSTERS A WORK ENVIRONMENT WHERE ALL OF FOX’S LGBTQ LLEAGU FEEL 100% THENTIC AND PROFSNALLY SUPPORTED.” ANOTHER MSAGE THE FOX PRI CHAT ROOM VED MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE AN “OPEN DISCSN” TO HAVE A “SAFE DIALOGUE” ABOUT DISCRIMATORY ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS AROUND THE UNTRY.WHEN REACHED FOR MENT, A FOX CORP SPOKPERSON WROTE: “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.” WHEN REACHED FOR MENT, A FOX NEWS SPOKPERSON REFERRED TO THE SAME STATEMENT. STARTG LAST MONTH, AFTER DISNEY SPOKE OUT AGAST THE VAGUELY WORD FLORIDA BILL BANNG DISCSN OF SEXUALY AND GENR SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, FOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS BEGAN MELTG DOWN ON AIR WH A CEPTIVE SMEAR MPAIGN TARGETG THE MOE HOE’S SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY.WH THE WORK’S WALL-TO-WALL SEGMENTS SOON VEERG TO OUTRIGHT HOMOPHOBIA AND ANTI-TRANS PANIC AS HOSTS CLAIMED DISNEY WAS PHG A “PROGRSIVE LGBT AGENDA” THAT SUPPORTED THE “CHEMIL STRATN” AND “GROOMG” OF YOUNG KIDS, THE HRC ON APRIL 1 MOTED THE WORK’S PARENT PANY OM S LIST OF TOP WORKPLAC—STRICTLY RPONSE TO FOX NEWS’ RECENT VERAGE.“FOX NEWS HAS A HISTORY OF SHARG MISRMATN AND DISRMATN ABOUT THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. WE KNOW OM OUR OWN REARCH, WHICH WE PUT OUT EARLIER THIS WEEK, WHAT THEIR DISRMATN AND MISRMATN MEANS FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY: PERPETUATG STIGMA AND MARGALIZATN OF TRANSGENR AND NON-BARY PEOPLE,” HRC SENR PRS SECRETARY ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT.“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 CLN EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS,” SHE ADD. “EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”WHILE FOX NEWS HAS ONLY RAMPED UP S ANTI-LGBTQ “DOOM & GROOM” RHETORIC SCE THEN, FOX CORPORATN’S LGBTQ EMPLOYE AND ALLI HAVE, ED, MA THEIR ANGER KNOWN ABOUT THE DAMAGE THE WORK HAS DONE TO THE PANY’S REPUTATN.AS ONE FOX SIR TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, MANY OF THE PANY’S LGBTQ EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” PECIALLY AS THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”ADDNALLY, THIS SIR EXPRSED HOW MUCH FOX’S RHETORIC HAS POTENTIALLY DAMAGED THE PANY AS A WHOLE AND ANGERED EMPLOYE ACROSS THE RPORATN.“THE THG IS, TERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY,” EXPLAED THE SIR, WHO SPOKE ON NDN OF ANONYMY FOR FEAR OF REPRISALS. “THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF . THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .”—SUBSCRIBE TO CONFIR, THE DAILY BEAST’S MEDIA NEWSLETTER, AND GET JUICY SOPS YOUR BOX EVERY MONDAY. JT BARAGONA
FOX NEWS' TAMMY BCE APOLOGIZ "AS A GAY WOMAN AND A FEMIST" FOR RIDICULG AUTISTIC BOYBCE LLED THE 10-YEAR-OLD "A SNOWFLAKE" NEED OF A "SAFE SPACE."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYMAY 17, 2017/12:24 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DAN AVERYMAY 17, 2017 / 12:24 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"FOX NEWS' TAMMY BCE APOLOGIZ \"AS A GAY WOMAN AND A FEMIST\" FOR RIDICULG AUTISTIC BOY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-05-17T16:24:35.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-05-17T16:24:35.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER A VIO OF MIKE PENCE ACCINTALLY BUMPG A YOUNG BOY WENT VIRAL LAST WEEK, ONE FOX NEWS NTRIBUTOR CLARED THE CHILD WAS A “SNOWFLAKE” FOR MANDG AN APOLOGY OM THE VICE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON FRIDAY, FOX NEWS’ TAMMY BCE CHID 10-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL, CLARG, “I GUS WE’RE GIVG BIRTH TO SNOWFLAK NOW, BEE THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT KID NEED A SAFE SPACE THAT ROOM.” SHE ADD THAT MICHAEL “PRETTY MUCH STALKED THE VICE PRINT AFTERWARDS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHEN TURNED OUT MICHAEL WAS ON THE TISTIC SPECTM, BCE TRIPPED OVER HERSELF TO APOLOGIZE “AS A GAY WOMAN AND A FEMIST.”FOX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON TUDAY, BCE ISSUED AN ON-AIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“FIRST OF ALL, I AM “SO SORRY TO THE FAY,” SHE TOLD VIEWERS. “MY TENTN WAS NEVER TO HURT A KID AND HIS MOM. WE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IA THAT MICHAEL WAS ON THE TISM SPECTM. AND AS A GAY WOMAN AND FEMIST, I HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE WORKG TO IMPROVE THE LIV OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND THOSE WHO ARE DISENANCHISED. I GET AND I APOLOGIZE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BCE THANKED MICHAEL’S MOTHER, DR. HERRERA-YEE, FOR BRGG THE MATTER TO LIGHT AND AGREED ’S BT “TO LEAVE KIDS OUT OF OUR POLIL DISCSNS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERRERA-YEE APPEARED ON CNN’S THE LEAD WH JAKE TAPPER ON MONDAY TO EXPRS HER OUTRAGE OVER BCE’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I WAS VASTATED WHEN I SAW WHAT THEY WERE SAYG,” SHE SAID. “THEY DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HIS AGE. THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHO HE WAS, BUT REALLY [WERE] TAKG OUT OF NTEXT A REALLY NOCENT TERCHANGE BETWEEN THE VICE PRINT AND MY SON.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DPE INTIFYG AS A LBIAN, BCE HAS PREVLY ATTACKED THE LGBT MUNY ON THE AIR: IN 2015, SHE MOCKED TRANSGENR CHILDREN BY SAYG, “THERE WAS A POT WHEN I WAS A CHILD WHERE I THOUGHT I WAS A CKER SPANIEL.” SHE'S ALSO REPORTED THAT NOT ALL GAY PEOPLE SUPPORT THE EEDOM TO MARRY, SOMETHG SHE THKS SHOULD BE RTRICTED TO HETEROSEXUAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE'S A SURPRISG NUMBER OF LGBT RRPONNTS AND ANCHORS ON FOX NEWS, ACTUALLY. EARLIER THIS MONTH, SHEPARD SMH SAID A SPEECH THAT BEG GAY DON’T IMPACT HIS WORK FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IT’S NOT A THG. I GO TO WORK," HE TOLD STUNTS AT THE UNIVERSY OF MISSISSIPPI. "I MANAGE A LOT OF PEOPLE. I VER THE NEWS. I AL WH HOLY HELL AROUND ME [AND] I GO HOME TO THE MAN I’M LOVE WH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows. * gay fox news personalities *
There, the former Fox News anchor discsed gay stereotyp and the dangers of beg pigeonholed as a gay journalist. "I don't want to be the gay journalist. I want to be the journalist who is gay.
After he began to do that, at the NLGJA chat he revealed he had been ma the "token gay" multiple tim and advised others to avoid if warned agast acceptg suatns where an edor says, "Oh, there's a gay story. Gay guy, go ver that.
THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
* gay fox news personalities *
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"Life is wonrful beg out and gay and proud, " he said. I'm so proud and happy to be part of this lovg gay muny. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.
WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
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. For once, Fox celebrated the gay man and gave the ld shoulr to the straight guy.
He me out as gay 2017, beg the only out host on the work. Smh, particularly after the 2016 electn, reaed om edorializg his news livery, which was sometim cril of the Tmp reportage put Smh at odds wh more right-wg hosts like Tucker Carlson as well as the print himself, who directed his ire at the gay anchor an Augt spoke to the "polarized" nature of the untry his fal Friday sign-off.
”But when turned out Michael was on the tistic spectm, Bce tripped over herself to apologize “as a gay woman and a femist. And as a gay woman and femist, I have spent most of my adult life workg to improve the liv of women and children and those who are disenanchised. ” She's also reported that not all gay people support the eedom to marry, somethg she thks should be rtricted to heterosexual 's a surprisg number of LGBT rrponnts and anchors on Fox News, actually.
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 POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERCHARLOTTE KLE
Earlier this month, Shepard Smh said a speech that beg gay don’t impact his work for Fox.
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. Yet is gay iology that liv loudly Baier and his lleagu.
A FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR ON BEG GAY, THE GOP, AND RELIG LIBERTY
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.
Her unwaverg support for gay “marriage” was displayed throughout.
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.
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DEMOT FOX CORPORATN FROM TOP WORKPLACE LIST FOLLOWG FOX NEWS COVERAGE OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, LGBTQ ISSU
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.
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.
FOX CORP LGBTQ STAFF GROUP CONMNS FOX NEWS’ ‘HATEFUL’ RHETORIC‘DISHEARTENING’FOX CORP’S STAFF-WI PRI BOARD NOUNCED AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE THE ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC OF THEIR LLEAGU AT FOX NEWS.JT BARAGONASENR MEDIA REPORTERUPDATED APR. 25, 2022 1:37PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 13, 2022 6:20PM EDT PHOTO BY LUIS G. RENDON/THE DAILY BEASTFOX NEWS’ OVERTLY ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AND VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL HAS GENERATED OUTRAGE OM ELSEWHERE WH THE MURDOCH MEDIA EMPIRE.AN EMPLOYEE WORKG AND ROURCE GROUP FOR FOX CORPORATN’S LGBTQ STAFFERS AND ALLI EARLIER THIS MONTH NMNED THE NSERVATIVE BLE GIANT’S “HATEFUL” VERAGE OF THE NEW FLORIDA LAW AND ISSU SURROUNDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY. THE NUNCIATN WAS RPONSE TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (HRC) REMOVG FOX CORP’S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ EMPLOYER OVER S RECENT ON-AIR RHETORIC.“FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” READ THE LENGTHY MSAGE POSTED ON APRIL 5 TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH CLUS STAFFERS OM FOX NEWS, FOX WEATHER, AND OTHER FOX BRANDS. THE NOTE WAS VERIFIED AND REVIEWED BY THE DAILY BEAST. “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. WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”THE TERNAL SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY MEDIA GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE. THE MSAGE, LABELED AS BEG “OM THE FOX PRI BOARD,” RECEIVED DOZENS OF POSIVE EMOJI REACTNS OM FOX-WI SLACK ERS, CLUDG HEARTS AND VAR PRI FLAGS. IT IS UNCLEAR WHEN AND HOW THE NOTE OF NMNATN WAS SENT TO FOX CORP BRASS.CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS REPORTG? SUBSCRIBE TO CONFIR, THE DAILY BEAST’S MEDIA NEWSLETTER HERE.THE STATEMENT NTUED: “FOX NEWS IS ONE OF THE MOST WATCHED BLE WORKS THE NATN AND WE MT BE MDFUL THAT THE IMPACT THE WORDS HAVE ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY—PECIALLY YOUTH. LGBTQ+ YOUTH HAVE THE HIGHT RATE OF SUICI AND WORDS MATTER. HATEFUL WORDS AND GENERALIZATNS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S LIV. WE ARE WORKG TO ADDRS AND MAKE SURE OUR VOIC ARE HEARD.”AS THE PANY’S EMPLOYEE ROURCE GROUP, FOX PRI “SUPPORTS IMPORTANT TO THE LGBTQ MUNY AND FOSTERS A WORK ENVIRONMENT WHERE ALL OF FOX’S LGBTQ LLEAGU FEEL 100% THENTIC AND PROFSNALLY SUPPORTED.” ANOTHER MSAGE THE FOX PRI CHAT ROOM VED MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE AN “OPEN DISCSN” TO HAVE A “SAFE DIALOGUE” ABOUT DISCRIMATORY ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS AROUND THE UNTRY.WHEN REACHED FOR MENT, A FOX CORP SPOKPERSON WROTE: “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.” WHEN REACHED FOR MENT, A FOX NEWS SPOKPERSON REFERRED TO THE SAME STATEMENT. STARTG LAST MONTH, AFTER DISNEY SPOKE OUT AGAST THE VAGUELY WORD FLORIDA BILL BANNG DISCSN OF SEXUALY AND GENR SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, FOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS BEGAN MELTG DOWN ON AIR WH A CEPTIVE SMEAR MPAIGN TARGETG THE MOE HOE’S SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY.WH THE WORK’S WALL-TO-WALL SEGMENTS SOON VEERG TO OUTRIGHT HOMOPHOBIA AND ANTI-TRANS PANIC AS HOSTS CLAIMED DISNEY WAS PHG A “PROGRSIVE LGBT AGENDA” THAT SUPPORTED THE “CHEMIL STRATN” AND “GROOMG” OF YOUNG KIDS, THE HRC ON APRIL 1 MOTED THE WORK’S PARENT PANY OM S LIST OF TOP WORKPLAC—STRICTLY RPONSE TO FOX NEWS’ RECENT VERAGE.“FOX NEWS HAS A HISTORY OF SHARG MISRMATN AND DISRMATN ABOUT THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. WE KNOW OM OUR OWN REARCH, WHICH WE PUT OUT EARLIER THIS WEEK, WHAT THEIR DISRMATN AND MISRMATN MEANS FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY: PERPETUATG STIGMA AND MARGALIZATN OF TRANSGENR AND NON-BARY PEOPLE,” HRC SENR PRS SECRETARY ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT.“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 CLN EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS,” SHE ADD. “EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”WHILE FOX NEWS HAS ONLY RAMPED UP S ANTI-LGBTQ “DOOM & GROOM” RHETORIC SCE THEN, FOX CORPORATN’S LGBTQ EMPLOYE AND ALLI HAVE, ED, MA THEIR ANGER KNOWN ABOUT THE DAMAGE THE WORK HAS DONE TO THE PANY’S REPUTATN.AS ONE FOX SIR TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, MANY OF THE PANY’S LGBTQ EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” PECIALLY AS THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”ADDNALLY, THIS SIR EXPRSED HOW MUCH FOX’S RHETORIC HAS POTENTIALLY DAMAGED THE PANY AS A WHOLE AND ANGERED EMPLOYE ACROSS THE RPORATN.“THE THG IS, TERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY,” EXPLAED THE SIR, WHO SPOKE ON NDN OF ANONYMY FOR FEAR OF REPRISALS. “THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF . THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .”—SUBSCRIBE TO CONFIR, THE DAILY BEAST’S MEDIA NEWSLETTER, AND GET JUICY SOPS YOUR BOX EVERY MONDAY. JT BARAGONA
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At the top: pro-gay, anti-Catholic Fox execs.