Big Step Forward For MSNBC's Coverage of LGBT Rights, But...

Filed By Rebecca Juro | March 08, 2012 2:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2012/03/big_step_forward_for_msnbcs_coverage_of_lgbt_right.php

Last week, MSNBC took a big step into twenty-first century reality when for the first time in the network's history it demonstrated that it understands that the modern civil rights movement isn't entirely wrapped up in the issues of whether gays and lesbians can serve in the military or marry each other, that just like every other segment of American society one of our community's key concerns is jobs and employment.MSNBC-Next-Step.png

There's no question that the intention of host Thomas Roberts, an openly gay man, in bringing this issue to MSNBC's air is a good one, and we should be thankful and appreciative that out of all of his on-air colleagues, up to and including even the also openly gay Rachel Maddow and major civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton, Mr. Roberts is leading the way at the network in covering this critical issue.

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The segment was titled "LGBT: Next Steps" and featured a trans woman, People.com Associate Editor and Huffington Post contributor Janet Mock, and gay conservative Robert Traynham, a former staffer for virulently anti-LGBT Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum.