Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Launches Advertising Campaigns In Minority-Owned Media Outlets.
GLAAD will first advertise in black-owned media running print advertisements for two to four weeks in The New York Amsterdam News, The New York Beacon, Los Angeles Sentinel, Chicago Defender, Oakland Post, Atlanta Inquirer and Dallas Weekly—newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of more than 1 million.
Internet ads also will run for one month.
"Visibility is key in communities of African descent because what you see are stereotypes that make it difficult for people to come out and for their parents to accept them being gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangendered," said Katina Parker, GLAAD's people-of-color media strategist for communities of African descent.
"In communities of African descent, there are sectors, churches and people who have the ear of the media and make it their priority to create negative messages about black gay and lesbian people," says Parker. "But the actual experience of [being a black gay or lesbian] is not ... any more controversial than it is in any other community."
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