The Associated Press

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: AP shows its homophobia

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
February 12th, 2013

The international news service that banned to use of the word “homophobia” has now banished the use of the words “husband” and “wife” to described the spouse of legally wed gay and lesbian couples.

How homophobic!

The Associated Press, once considered the Rolls-Royce of news services but now watching its reputation tarnishing before their very eyes, blunders yet again with today’s strange update to its Stylebook. Here is the memo:

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COMMENTARY: AP’s discouraging “homophobia” is so discouraging

The Rev. Irene Monroe - SDGLN Contributor
November 29th, 2012

The editors of the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that they are “discouraging” use of the word "homophobia." The AP Stylebook is the widely used guide that media use to standardize terms and general usage.

Why should the LGBTQ community be in a kerfuffle about it? Because the editors made their decision without consultation with the nation's leading LGBTQ organizations, leaders, activists and newspapers. That is a problem.

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Proposition 8 plaintiffs urge Ninth Circuit to uphold public's right to view historic trial's video

SDGLN Staff
November 15th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO – The plaintiffs in Perry v. Brown, the landmark federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, late Monday filed a brief defending the public’s right to see the video recording of the historic public trial in this case.

The brief urges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the District Court’s decision granting plaintiffs’ motion to unseal the digital recording of the trial.

Appeals court is asked to release Proposition 8 trial video

SDGLN Staff
April 20th, 2011

LOS ANGELES -- In response to efforts by the Proposition 8 proponents to conceal video of the Prop. 8 trial from the public, a number of media outlets and advocates called for the full and unedited release of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger public trial footage.