Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Combined Gay News Headlines (T5T-1)

Sarah Palin's retrenchment from American politics did have one negative side effect: The downhill slide Saturday Night Live has been unable to stop since the election. Particularly when it comes to jokes having anything remotely to do with homos, the results are ever more disasterous. Neil Patrick Harris' reprieve notwithstanding, SNL obviously suffers in this [...]
The leader of the zealot Westboro Baptist Church promised to protest a Ft. Lauderdale production of "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," described as "a satire of Biblical stories as told from a gay point of view." But Phelps & Co.never showed, leaving the anti-Phelps protesters with nothing to protest. [SF Blade] Permalink | post a comment [...]
Are we in the middle of a transgender renaissance? Of course not—a renaissance would require an original time when transgender men and women were treated with normalcy. But maybe we're heading down the path toward the first era where MTF and FTM folks won't be treated as outsiders, but just another demographic group children grow [...]
There are things in this life that we don’t understand and never will. Some of those instances are elusive for good reason. How does a person expect to have an enjoyable life if you know what experience waits for you around the next corner? Sometimes these situations come and pass so fast that there is [...]
Our 44th President of the United States, our first black president has officially been sworn in. I can tell you that I’m actually feeling better already about the state of our country now that Bush has officially been sent packing. I can’t wait to see what the next 4 years will bring us!          [...]
Video is up (h/t Blabbeando):

Kate and I were surfing to see which networks would broadcast the Lesbian and Gay Band Association as it passed the presidential reviewing stand. Of course CSPAN, which is commercial and commentary-free, showed its appearance.

* CNN had it up in a corner of the screen. No mention or ID when we had it on. UPDATE: CNNLive.com showed the band (Blender Linda/Orion45 sent these in):

 

 

* MSNBC didn't show the band at all; it went to commercial and came back on after the band had passed
* Faux News showed the band full screen for the longest time (prominently featuring the banner identifying the band), though I didn't see anyone discuss it.

Anyone else notice if the band received coverage on other networks?

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