From Media Matters for America comes their latest piece on the right wing media outcry following the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich: To hear conservative media tell it, the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich following an outcry over Eich’s support for the 2008 referendum that banned same-sex marriage in California is merely the…
NEW YORK – Rivendell Media has released its popular, annual Gay Press Report to reveal that spending in America’s “Gay Press” for 2013 is at a record high of $381.4 million, up 18.2% from 2012 and showing that LGBT community media is as strong as ever. Spending and circulation in LGBT print media is up…
http://youtu.be/L1y4_D0e7uQ WASHINGTON — Today, Media Matters for America launched Mythopedia – a new tool for fighting back against right-wing misinformation. Mythopedia is a simple fact checker that concisely debunks persistent conservative lies. The site launched with 400 entries of common conservative myths with new fact-checks added in real time. Media Matters made this announcement ahead of the Conservative…
From Media Matters For America comes their latest post on the media’s coverage of Arizona’s anti-gay bill: Fox News dedicated its first segment on Gov. Brewer’s veto of Arizona’s anti-gay bill to an interview with one of America’s most notorious anti-gay hate group leaders. Feb. 26, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced that she had vetoed Senate…
“In a nutshell, it’s a harsh world out there for trans public figures and Janet Mock is likely going to experience that harsh world first hand,” I wrote back in the spring of 2011 in one of two open letters to Janet Mock on her publicly coming out as a woman of transsexual history. I…
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today acknowledged international advocates working through the media to advance equality across the globe, by announcing the inaugural International Advocate for Change Award to be presented at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The announcement comes as the world’s…
Media Matters for America reports how, during discussions with Equality Matters, officials from a number of California’s largest school districts pushed back against right-wing misinformation about a new state law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Evidence continues to mount that a new California law allowing transgender public school students to use the restroom facilities…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign today announced a Communications War Room for Americans for Marriage Equality – a coalition to advance marriage equality nationwide and provide up-to-the-minute information for lawmakers, legal experts, media, and grassroots supporters. Following the defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 last year, new marriage equality…
Media Matters for America’s latest post about how Breitbart.com Editor-At-Large Ben Shapiro predicted that Hollywood, which he credits with shifting American public opinion in favor of marriage equality, will soon push sentiment in the other direction. He bases this assertion on the assumption that the weddings of 33 same-sex and opposite-sex couples at the 56th annual…
COLUMBIA, Mo. – According to recent statistics, more than 175 million tweets are sent daily, and 11 accounts are created every second on Twitter. One celebrity who boasts the highest amount of global subscribers is singer Lady Gaga who enjoys more than 40 million Twitter followers. Now, University of Missouri communication researchers have found that…
