Out in the Mountains

GLAD Report

Sonys Out

The Sony Corporation of America will be
the next major advertiser to buy space in
Out magazine (Apple recently bought a
two—page spread to promote the com-
pany's Powerbook computer). Sony will
begin advertising in the Dec./Jan. issue
of Out. As always, the homophobes are
expected to swamp Sony with postcards
warning the company about the evils of
supporting "the gay agenda." Send sup-
portive comments to John Heenan, Sony
Corporation of America, 1 Sony Drive,
Park Ridge, NJ 07656-8003. Send copies
of your correspondence to Hary Taylor,
Account Manager, Out, The Soho Build-
ing, Suite 800, New York, NY 10019,
fax 212-334-9227. (GLADLA)

Holes in The Holy War

On Friday, November 19, PBS aired an
hour-long segment of Bill Moyers' Jour-
nal titled The New Holy War, which
looked at efforts by fundamentalist lead-
ers to oppose equal rights for lesbian and
gay people. The report, which was pro-
duced and directed by Gail Pellett and
written by Pellett and Moyers, focused
specifically on Colorado Springs, where
many organizations in the Religious
Reich are headquartered.

To his credit, Moyers interviewed a hand-
ful of lesbian and gay Colorado citizens.

However, Moyers gave a wider range of
fundamentalists considerable time to ex-
plain their heterosupremacist views,
which they presented with all the polish
that expensive market testing and fo-
rensic training can provide. Although
Moyers gently challenged the speakers to
justify some of their points, he did not re-
fute their many distortions, misleading
statements, and outright lies. In fact, he
offered no evaluation of the two “sides”
whatsoever. Viewers who don’t know
better may have believed the mis-
information presented in this program,
and anti-gay viewers must have felt vin-
dicated and affirmed in their beliefs.

Though Moyers did not know it, many of
his featured bigots quoted directly from
Medical Consequences of What Homo-
sexuals Do, a wide1y—distributed and out-
rageously-deceptive pamphlet produced
by Paul Cameron (a quack “psychol-
ogist” who has lied to several U.S. courts
and who also has been roundly con-
demned by the American Psychological
Association, American Sociological As-
sociation, and other professional associa-
tions). among other "facts," the pamphlet
states: “The rectum was not designed to
accommodate the fist (or little gerbils),
and those who do so can find themselves
consigned to diapers ’ for life.” Un-
fortunately, Moyer’s never got around to

taking a close look at that pamphlet or
other key sources of fundamentalist mis-
information.

Send your comments to Bill Moyers
Journal, c/o Jennifer Lawson, Executive
Vice President, National Programming
and Promotions, PBS, 1320 Braddock
Place, Alexandria, VA 22314, tel. 703-
739-5000. For a copy of Medical Con-
sequences of What Homosexuals Do,
write to Family Research Institute, P.O.
Box 2091, Washington, DC 20013, tel.
203-690-8536.

Founded in 1985, it is the mission of the
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Def-
amation (GLAAD) to counter stereotypes
and misinformation about lesbians and
gay men, to promote the fullest possible
understanding of the breadth and di-
versity of lesbian and gay lives, and to
counter all public expression of bigotry
of any kind.The need for continual gay
and lesbian reaction to the events that
are shaping our lives and our future is
important. One of the most eflective tools
we can use is letter writing. When you
write a letter, please send a copy of your
correspondence, and any reply, to us for
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