Comments on: Advocate Screws It Up

By: BrooklynOx

BrooklynOx — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:16:14 +0000

In two rounds of quiet editing that have occurred online following my letter of complaint, Advocate has now altered their original article into something approaching the acceptable. Kimah is no longer referred to as a man. Feminine pronouns are used. Her chosen name is no longer in quotes.

I have screen captured both the before and after on this article.

They did not change the date online to reflect any of the revisions, and they have yet to acknowledge me directly. Nor am I aware of any public acknowledgment or retraction. Nor am I aware of any private apologies, to anyone.

Thank you all for helping me to bring some sunlight to this bigotry. I have learned that it is an effective disinfectant. Thank you for any behind-the-scenes support you might have lent that I might not have been aware of.

By: helenboyd

helenboyd — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:15:19 +0000

as dana mentioned on my facebook link, the whole tone of the article is still “haha, two guys got married in NYS” though.

By: BrooklynOx

BrooklynOx — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Advocate has inded changed some pronouns from the original…which I screen captured for comparison before I complained.

However, they continue to refer to Kimah as a man, and have her chosen name in quotes. Both are violations of the GLAAD media standards for defamation against transfolk.

They need to do better still. And they need to start apologizing.

J D ‘Ox’ Freeman
President
Alabama Gender Alliance

By: VÃ©ronique

Since the pronouns in the article are now correct, it looks like The Advocate did a bit of editing. I hope they did a bit of learning too. Good on J D Freeman for calling them on it, and good on you for bringing this to our attention.