TV's gay spin zone.(last word)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 31-AUG-04

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For too many years when gay men and lesbians appeared on the nightly news, their lives were illustrated by woefully archaic film clips of seedy gay bars or seminaked parade revelers. Even through the late 1990s it used to amaze me that journalists could yammer about employment legislation or "don't ask, don't tell" while showing film clips of drag queens in hot pink beehive hairdos and spiked heels. For variety they could always pull out film of police hovering in protective rubber.

The press is lazy. I know. I used to be in television. Producers used old clips,...

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