Don't Ask Gays About Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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Friday May 14, 2010 · 12:02 PM PDT

2010/05/14 · 12:02

title= Julie Hollar is the managing editor of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's magazine, Extra!. Previously she served as FAIR's communications director. A graduate of Rice University, she has written for the Texas Observer and coordinated communications and activism at the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas.

In her post on FAIR's site, "Don't Ask Gays About Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Debate on Military Policy Excludes Most Affected" documents traditional media's marginalization of LGBT voices in discussions, while voices from extremist right-wing "family" organizations are given wide audience. Her research showed, in the weeks following the Senate hearings on the Miliary's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

....only three of 25 sources commenting on DADT on ABC, CBS and NBC—one on each network—were identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or representing an LGBT organization.

Below the fold, her essay is reposted her with permission.

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