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Apr 16, 2007
Quickie Link: Dithering With The Stars -- By Michelangelo Signorile
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By vanrozenheim
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I’ve been thinking about how the uproar over Don Imus’s racist remarks underscores the appalling ineffectiveness of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, something quite a few listeners to my radio program have pointed out as well. GLAAD’s sole purpose these days seems to be to help Hollywood and media figures get through their various homophobic p.r. meltdowns while cooing with praise at the slightest bit of good they do. That is no more evident than in the GLAAD Media Awards, star-studded, lavish events that now take place in four cities – New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami – over a period of almost two months and attended by more than 5000 people at a cost of several hundred dollars each for a dinner among the stars.
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