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March 24 Toronto GATE (Toronto) […]
When
1976-03-24
Description
March 24 Toronto GATE (Toronto) sponsored a forum entitled "Gay People in the News," which attracted forty people, including some representatives of the media. Forty-five people had been asked to represent the print and media industries, but only three appeared: Max Allen (CBC radio), Rob Sands (CBC television), and Barrie Zwicker (Content magazine). The discussion focused on common, sensationalized coverage in the mainstream media of individuals who conform to gay stereotypes, and media ignorance of the gay community and gay movement as a whole. The Toronto Star published a fair account of the event the next day, the first time that the mainstream media had ever covered a GATE (Toronto) forum.
