GLAAD, an organization that began with the best of intentions and is now, in my opinion, the gay world's biggest fundraising non-profit disaster-with donation income of more than $12 million in 2008, and, for some reason, on-hand assets of more than $11 million at the end of that year, and with staff of at least 46, none of whom, in my experience, are remotely able to return phone calls in a timely fashion to a reporter on deadline-announced its Media Awards this week. Actually the most amazing thing about their announcement about the state of media is that it includes three media contacts: one in-house and also two [...]

This summer, gay group GLAAD, which concerns itself with "gay representation" in the "media," announced that they were horribly offended by something! Again! "In a July 22 comic, The Denver Westword published a cartoon in its 'Kenny Be' series that used the anti-gay slur f*g. The comic depicts a series of camper archetypes, one of which illustrates a type of camper who spends exorbitant amounts of money on camping gear-a person the comic calls a 'Gear f*g.'" We have just been alerted that, last week, Kenny Be has responded-in great, hilarious detail.