GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project Explained

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GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project Explained
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 2:10pm
by Aaron McQuade, GLAAD's Director of News and Field Media

http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaads-commentator-accountability-project-explained

As many of you have probably seen by now, today GLAAD (along with our friend Jeremy Hooper from Good As You) officially launched our Commentator Accountability Project. As we wrote on the website Mediaite this morning:

    GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project is designed to shine a big, bright light on the extreme views of the vast majority of prominent anti-LGBT talkers. Bizarre allusions to Nazi Germany. Frequent accusations of satanic influence. Apocalyptic predictions for a world in which LGBT citizens are treated equally. Vile claims that the AIDS epidemic is God's judgment. Dehumanizing comparisons of loving same-sex relationships to crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, or "jumping off a 10-story building."

Almost immediately we've seen positive responses from many of our constitutents and members of the LGBT media. including influential bloggers. We also got a thank-you from Matt Barber.

...wait, that Matt Barber?