08/18/2005
Neil Giuliano, former mayor of Tempe, Arizona, named president of GLAAD. Giuliano served Tempe as an openly gay Republican for four terms. Said Giuliano: "From anti-defamation campaigns to media trainings that directly serve our community's leaders, GLAAD brings our stories to life in the very places that hold the key to winning our quest for equality."
An Allstate employee who wrote anti-gay articles on his company laptop and was suspended without pay and escorted from company grounds has filed a lawsuit against the company. "In the article 'Intolerance' Will Not Be Tolerated! The Gay Agenda vs. Family Values,' he called same-sex marriages make-believe, 'oxymoronic' and an example of 'societal de-evolution.' He praised 'homosexual recovery organizations' and lambasted liberals for decrying the harm caused by tobacco, drugs and alcohol but not 'the dreadful and preventable health related pitfalls, which stem from the homosexual lifestyle.' When the article was published on mensnewsdaily.com, they included his employment with Allstate in the bio information. (thanks scott)
"Big Gay Read" will attempt to find Britain's favorite gay novel; competition is about promoting gay and lesbian literature to the general public.
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that guy deserved to be suspended!
Posted by: Roy | Aug 18, 2005 11:19:53 AM
For this year I would vote for The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.
In fact I would vote for any of his amazing novels. I can think of few gay men writing current fiction as stunning a writer as he is. Each page of all of his novels swept me away. I hated for each to end and felt sad that they did but also better for having read such fine writing.
Posted by: Donald | Aug 18, 2005 11:31:06 AM
Jeannette Winterson is just an amazing writer, though I prefer "Written on the Body" to "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit." I guess it's less explicitly queer since its narrator's gender is never revealed.
Posted by: chrisafer | Aug 18, 2005 11:47:47 AM
Giuliano has his work cut out for him (including overcoming rumors about his fondness for chasing other, not necessarily unattached, gay celebrities) as Joan Garry left GLAAD in a shambles; a once roaring lion of an organization reduced to being a paper kitten.
I wonder how she spends her days, now that every one of them is not spent with her head up the asses of Carson & Co.? She's passed that job to Matt Foreman at NGLTF.
Posted by: Leland | Aug 18, 2005 8:05:18 PM
It's too bad that the Big Gay Read is confined to recent novels. My favorite book ever--by light years--is E.M. Forster's Maurice, which had a profound effect on me when I read it (before the movie was made). I loved Forster's theme: that Maurice is only half-alive until he accepts his homosexuality; when he accepts it, he becomes whole and finds love in with Alec. *Sigh* James Wilby and Rupert Graves kissing *Sigh* Jake who? Heath who?
Posted by: Jim | Aug 18, 2005 10:54:40 PM
Sigh. Anyone get the feeling that Allstate employee is going to play himself as a martyr?
Posted by: Lyle | Aug 19, 2005 1:57:01 AM