Comments on: It’s been a bad week for gay rights http://www.malindalo.com/2008/11/its-been-a-bad-week-for-gay-rights/ Author Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Natazzz http://www.malindalo.com/2008/11/its-been-a-bad-week-for-gay-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-954 Natazzz Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:07:34 +0000 http://malindalo.com/blog/2008/11/05/its-been-a-bad-week-for-gay-rights/#comment-954 It might have been a bad week, but I've never been more moved by all those people who stood up and showed they cared... It might have been a bad week, but I’ve never been more moved by all those people who stood up and showed they cared…

]]> By: Mari SanGiovanni http://www.malindalo.com/2008/11/its-been-a-bad-week-for-gay-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-953 Mari SanGiovanni Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:30:40 +0000 http://malindalo.com/blog/2008/11/05/its-been-a-bad-week-for-gay-rights/#comment-953 The firing of Brooke Smith due to the lesbian storyline was disgraceful, yet expected. Please go to ABC.com and hit the CONTACT US link to tell them exactly what you think. Thanks to this wimpy move, lesbians now have ZERO viability on prime time TV which has over 600 characters. If gay people are 10% of the population (as are African Americans) this is so sad considering we jumped a major hurdle for equality electing our first African American president ---but the US is still proving that gays are the last group of people you don't even have to tolerate. --Mari Mari SanGiovanni Author of: Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer... www.GreetingsFromJamaica.com The firing of Brooke Smith due to the lesbian storyline was disgraceful, yet expected. Please go to ABC.com and hit the CONTACT US link to tell them exactly what you think. Thanks to this wimpy move, lesbians now have ZERO viability on prime time TV which has over 600 characters. If gay people are 10% of the population (as are African Americans) this is so sad considering we jumped a major hurdle for equality electing our first African American president —but the US is still proving that gays are the last group of people you don’t even have to tolerate.

–Mari

Mari SanGiovanni
Author of: Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer…

http://www.GreetingsFromJamaica.com

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