The Media Research Center’s hateful complaining about LGBT people during Pride Month continued in a June 29 post by Jorge Bonilla:
As we’ve often indicated, Spanish-language news media exists primarily as a vehicle for immigration advocacy. However, they are very much invested in shoving the rest of the left-wing policy pupu platter down the community’s throat. In this case, by showcasing Mexico City’s first trans police officer.
Watch as Telemundo does its part to push trans propaganda to the community:
[…]The first thing you notice is that they spotlight an officer from Mexico City as opposed to one in the States. The reason this is done is because Latino political identity, as manufactured by American leftists, is fundamentally backward-looking. Showcasing a transgender cop in Mexico City is a way of normalizing gender transition for Telemundo’s Spanish-dominant audience.
The report states that this officer underwent the process to “physically become a man.” What does that mean? How far along is she? Has she undergone any surgical interventions or is it just hormone therapy? What assessed impact may including trans officers have on Mexico City’s police force? We just don’t know because the report didn’t seek to delve into those real, serious questions. Unfortunately, Telemundo wasn’t interested in delving too far into this subject matter beyond basic Pride propaganda.
And Bonilla is not pushing transphobic propaganda? He seems utterly oblivious to his own biases — or maybe he knows them all too well, given that he gets paid to spread such hate.
Tim Graham once again compalained that others don’t hate gay people as much as he does in a June 30 post:
Liam Stack of The New York Times proclaims on his article page at NYTimes.com that he follows his paper’s “Ethical Journalism Handbook” and so “I make every effort to understand issues from multiple angles.” There are no multiple angles when it’s time to celebrate a Gay Pride march.
On the front page was a color photo with the headline “Pride, and Resistance,” noting “Millions packed the streets of Manhattan to celebrate amid the most hostile political climate for LGBTQ Americans in decades.”
Inside the paper, Stack’s article was headlined “With Defiance and Joy, Marching to Celebrate LGBTQ Pride.” No opponent of the LGBTQ lobby was quoted, because who needs “multiple angles”? Stack’s lede matched the caption about the “most hostile political climate.” Stack quoted a pack of extremely panicked activists implying the conservatives are going to kill or injure them somehow.
Graham offered no evidence that right-wing homophobia like his will not ultimately result in violence. Instead, he cheered the right-wing “backlash” against LGBTQ people:
The Times wants to argue liberal bias is winning: “The New York march is the largest of its kind in the United States, with 75,000 participants and roughly two million spectators, according to organizers. It is also broadcast on network television, a testament to how much public support for L.G.B.T.Q. people has grown over a generation.” The parade is apparently broadcast live on ABC’s New York City station.
But now there’s a “backlash.” Leftists can’t seem to grasp the obvious that they have kept pushing the boundaries of their gender-bending revolution until people objected to “gender-affirming” mutilations and boys in girls’ sports. It’s not a “backlash” as much as a reaction to new extremes.
Graham further groused that there was not “a diversity of opinions in his Pride Parade story” — even though had never demanded a diversity of opinions at his own employer’s operations, even at the MRC’s former “news” division CNSNews.com.
(We previously noted Graham’s ranting about NPR featuring “drag queens for climate activism,” which he snottily dismissed as “Mad Libs for mad leftists.”)
Intern Matthew Seck finished out the month with a June 30 post cheering that corporate support for LGBTQ initiatives is dwindling:
On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America ran a segment decrying the decrease in funding and support for Pride Month by corporations that once used to offer suffering levels of support. GMA used a series of syrupy clips which created a narrative of pressure by the LGBTQ community on corporations to back them financially and publicly or else they hate the gay and transgender community.
[…]Osunsami claimed that, as a result of pulled funding by corporations, pride organizations across the country can’t afford headliners and certain events. He said things don’t look so different this year, but then gave the amounts listed above in an attempt to make corporations look bad because they aren’t fully embracing Pride Month with floats and parties.
As much as ABC may have made them seem responsible, corporations have every right to decide whether to provide donations and aren’t mandated by any means to provide funding. The reason for pulled funding was that these corporations don’t feel like they have to pump money into pride month parades anymore in fear of cancel culture.
Aren’t Seck and his fellow MRCers promoting cancel culture by attacking LGBTQ rights? He’s silent on that; instead he whined that a person from the Human Rights Campaign interviewed in the report said, according to his interpretation, that “she and others will ‘remember their true friends,’ in an attempt to make these corporations good or evil, you either donate and support, or you’re bad.” As if the MRC doesn’t attack those who don’t adhere to its right-wing agenda.