January Prop 8-related summit will restrict media access
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Jan 05, 2009 at 13:15:00 PM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=9516C1934B29F77F8E5B1619FBAEC7B9?diaryId=8922As the LGBT community digests how and why Prop 8 passed, one of the key post-mortem discussions has been how things might have been handled more effectively. Later this month, 150 activists will gather in Los Angeles to attend a summit to discuss how to move forward (I'm not sure what the who's who criteria are for an invite).
And guess what? A controversy has already erupted -- a decision has been made by the organizing committee to bar the media from select portions of the conference. That can only be described as a serious transparency problem. Robin Tyler, one of the plaintiffs in the California same-sex marriage case is extremely disturbed by this decision, and you'll read her comments in this report by Rex Wockner, who gave the Blend permission to publish it along with his photos.
Big Prop 8-related summit will limit media access
by Rex Wockner
A Jan. 24 summit in Los Angeles to strategize about "winning back marriage rights" in California will be only partially open to media -- a decision that has led to the resignation of one member of the organizing committee and to complaints from California gay media figures.
