Dan dear, not to be nit-picky, but even though the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are humans, they don't actually have body parts.

(Well, there is that organ farm that GE is operating in that Chinese political prison, but that doesn't count.)

Otherwise, spot on. I've never really understood GLAAD's purpose. They get worked up about dumb things, and then ignore other real insults. This AT&T thing is the last straw. They have no legitimacy whatsoever.

It's so nice to know that the $100 a month I pay AT&T is going towards horseshit like this.

Well, no, not really.

I've been pretty puzzled through this whole thing as to why GLAAD has been making any comment either way about the merger. Isn't GLAAD's stated purpose to monitor and comment on how gay people are portrayed in the media? How is this merger a gay issue?

I agree this AT&T stuff is baloney. Do you think the plug should be pulled on the NEA and the NAACP too?

Also, I liked this part of what you said in this video:

As adults we have a responsibility when kids use "That's gay" to put it in their heads that that's a little fucked up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpXxx929…

It's called magnetizing the base so they can *screw you* into the machine. They draw you to your little pet causes, and then take a big dump on you. This is why the left needs to dismiss amoralism and so-called pragmatism, which--surprise!--results in our accelerated decent into tyranny and regressivism. It's time to drop ALL groups that do this kind of astroturfing bullshit.

@5 I mean, do you think gatekeepers are only made up of journalists and access bloggers?

American corporations: we're really good at legal bribery.

Jesus. It's like corporate lobbying (aka legalized bribery) is coming out of the closet. Not enough to just target the politicians anymore...o_O

Goodbye, GLAAD. HRC - you're next.

Dan, you can't pull the plug on something like GLAAD unless you have some way to completely defund them. It would seem the best way to obliterate GLAAD would be to oversee the construction of a more rigidly defined body.

GLAAD lost its bearings years ago, when it started down the road toward hosting awards parties and away from its actual mission. We need what GLAAD used to do (grass roots activism) and not what it currently seems to be doing (I.e., getting enmeshed with corporate donors. With all the other options available for grass roots activism, GLAAD is now superfluous.

i'm very curious about how joe jervis, winner of GLAAD's first-ever outstanding gay blog award, feels about all this crap:

http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2011/06/jo…

GLAAD has been an embarassment for years. Just another example, here.

Yeah, let's not forget about them attacking gay media figures for trying to reclaim "fag" - you know, like LGBTQetc. activists did with "queer". Do they object to "dyke", or has that been successfully reclaimed to the point where it's a non-issue, too? (Obviously, in the real world of non-essentialized meanings for particular combinations of sounds, all of these depend on context; I'm curious about GLAAD's "our understandings of words are the only correct ones" fantasy world.)

Ah, that was the "embarrassment" link, my bad.

We should just assume that corporations buying off non-profits and stacking their boards with shills is the new normal. An easy way to spot when an organization you support has been bought off this way? When they are advocating for a cause that has nothing to do with their stated organizational goals. ("This merger will make it easier for our supporters to make phone calls?" What?)

Non-profits usually have their mission statements right on their website. It's an easy way to check if their advocacy has been hijacked.

You're a little off here, Dan. Firstly, as far as Mike Signorile goes, you're not telling the whole story - and neither is he. The offer was made to Jarrett, and Jarrett said yes - then the board member (which, in matters like these, a board of ANY size should be consulted) asked to join Jarrett as many of the lies told by the bitter ex-board member came long before Jarrett's time. Therefore, it was Mike who was clearly just out to "catch" Jarrett on something and refused to allow both Jarrett and the board member on the show - what was Mike so afraid of that he wouldn't let both people appear?

You also say that Jarrett "dishonestly trashed Perper." Did you listen to the interview? The entire time, all she did was make things up about GLAAD and everyone listened because we just LOOOVE to eat our own. Do you know ANYTHING about this source other than she was a former board member and now hates GLAAD? Seriously - if we spent half the time going after the people who hate us as we do the organizations trying to support us, wed have had our equality YEARS ago.

You're a little off here, Dan. Firstly, as far as Mike Signorile goes, you're not telling the whole story - and neither is he. The offer was made to Jarrett, and Jarrett said yes - then the board member (which, in matters like these, a board of ANY size should be consulted) asked to join Jarrett as many of the lies told by the bitter ex-board member came long before Jarrett's time. Therefore, it was Mike who was clearly just out to "catch" Jarrett on something and refused to allow both Jarrett and the board member on the show - what was Mike so afraid of that he wouldn't let both people appear?

You also say that Jarrett "dishonestly trashed Perper." Did you listen to the interview? The entire time, all she did was make things up about GLAAD and everyone listened because we just LOOOVE to eat our own. Do you know ANYTHING about this source other than she was a former board member and now hates GLAAD? Seriously - if we spent half the time going after the people who hate us as we do the organizations trying to support us, wed have had our equality YEARS ago.

This reminds me of the time some nuclear group showed up at our little Act-up meeting and wanted us to endorse Yucca Mountain. TWo highly paid people with 15 little Aids activists. What a show that was when one informed member just said" what the fuck?"

Who the fuck is Chris Reynolds?