GLAAD's "Ineffective" Campaign And Doing The Right Thing Even If It Isn't Easy
27Mar10
dentedbluemercedes
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/glaads-ineffective-campaign-and-doing-the-right-thing-even-if-it-isnt-easy/ (http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/glaads-ineffective-campaign-and-doing-the-right-thing-even-if-it-isnt-easy/)
or http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/glaads-ineffective-campaign-and-doing.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/glaads-ineffective-campaign-and-doing.html)
It's time to call for, support and thank those who continue to do the right thing, even if it isn't easy or a guaranteed win.
And that includes GLAAD, who campaigned against the Tribeca Film Festival's inclusion of a transploitative film that would have probably been simply another badly-acted bit of visually caricaturish B-grade schlock masquerading as "camp" if it hadn't tried to co-opt some very real tragedies in the murders of Angie Zapata and other trans-identified or trans-affected (i.e. apparently in the case of Jorge Mercado) people, and then pass itself off as the voice of our community's anger.
GLAAD which is now being criticized and called "right up there with the Human Rights Campaign in its irrelevance" for speaking out against the film.