March 24 Toronto GATE (Toronto) […]

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1976-03-24

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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.

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Toronto

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Rob Sands Max Allen

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Gay Alliance toward Equality GATE

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Toronto Daily Star; Toronto Star Content Magazine

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Gay People in the News

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J.W. (John Wilson), "Media Attend GATE Forum," Gay Rising, April 1976, pp. 2–3.Ken Popert, "Public Forum Castigates Media's Picture of Gays," Body Politic, no. 24 (1976), p. 8 "Homosexuals See Bias in Media," Toronto Star, four star ed., 25 March 1976, p. A3

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Rob Sands

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