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transI have had it with this stupid paper. I am so angry, I want to scream.
As some of you may remember, a few months ago, the Tribune Review published an article about me without my permission. In that article, they not only included my gender status, they also included my hometown, outing me to pretty much anyone who knows me and reads the Tribune Review. After contacting the paper repeatedly, I was told that it was journalist privilege for them to publish anything considered "public" news. I agree, even though it's obviously a gray-area. We don't publish stories about the victims of crimes for example, so why out an intersexed person who doesn't want to be out...especially when they're speaking at an event that is about a human-rights law because they were fired from a previous job for being intersexed. To me, it was backhanded and may have jeopardized my career.
Well, this week, they went one step further by publishing a ridiculous article about HB 300, a bill in Pennsylvania that would protect GLBT people on a statewide level and provide transpeople with equal accomadation in housing, employment, and public services. The article which first appeared in the Valley Dispatch but was reposted to the Trib, is basically an echo chamber for extremist bigotry and includes comments from all the usual suspects. They even busted out talking points from the American Family Association and a lawmaker who goes off on a gay-hating rant about keeping marriage non-inclusive:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/news/butler/s_620395.html
Warning: Happy funtime bigotry inside, now with 35% more riboflavin!
I'm one little, angry voice in all of this and some might even see me as delusional, but I am sick of this. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and all of its subsidiaries have proven to me twice now that they are homophobic, transphobic, and bigoted. In the past, they've also proven that they are a horribly racist organization as well:
http://www.popehat.com/2008/06/23/mike-seate-of-the-pittsburgh-tribune-review-doesnt-approve-of-your-familys-skin-color/
I wish I could organize some sort of protest against the paper. It's rather popular in some middling-to-larger places in the state and is rather influential to people who are unfortunate enough to have the Trib or one of its sister papers as the only publication in their town. :(
As some of you may remember, a few months ago, the Tribune Review published an article about me without my permission. In that article, they not only included my gender status, they also included my hometown, outing me to pretty much anyone who knows me and reads the Tribune Review. After contacting the paper repeatedly, I was told that it was journalist privilege for them to publish anything considered "public" news. I agree, even though it's obviously a gray-area. We don't publish stories about the victims of crimes for example, so why out an intersexed person who doesn't want to be out...especially when they're speaking at an event that is about a human-rights law because they were fired from a previous job for being intersexed. To me, it was backhanded and may have jeopardized my career.
Well, this week, they went one step further by publishing a ridiculous article about HB 300, a bill in Pennsylvania that would protect GLBT people on a statewide level and provide transpeople with equal accomadation in housing, employment, and public services. The article which first appeared in the Valley Dispatch but was reposted to the Trib, is basically an echo chamber for extremist bigotry and includes comments from all the usual suspects. They even busted out talking points from the American Family Association and a lawmaker who goes off on a gay-hating rant about keeping marriage non-inclusive:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/news/butler/s_620395.html
Warning: Happy funtime bigotry inside, now with 35% more riboflavin!
I'm one little, angry voice in all of this and some might even see me as delusional, but I am sick of this. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and all of its subsidiaries have proven to me twice now that they are homophobic, transphobic, and bigoted. In the past, they've also proven that they are a horribly racist organization as well:
http://www.popehat.com/2008/06/23/mike-seate-of-the-pittsburgh-tribune-review-doesnt-approve-of-your-familys-skin-color/
I wish I could organize some sort of protest against the paper. It's rather popular in some middling-to-larger places in the state and is rather influential to people who are unfortunate enough to have the Trib or one of its sister papers as the only publication in their town. :(