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Michael Goff, the founding editor of Out, is the latest LGBT journalist to sign an open letter condeming the magazine's profile of Milo Yiannopoulos — a right-wing peddler of hate speech that got him banned from Twitter.
As of midday Friday, 80 members of the LGBT media had signed the letter reprimanding Out magazine, twice as many who had signed when The Advocate first reported on the letter Thursday — and three times as many as it was first posted. While condemnation has been widespread, and growing, most LGBT journalists who answered requests for comment by The Advocate haven't called for specific consequences for Out. Instead, most want discussion and change that lasts past this moment.
Out, which described Yiannopoulos in part as a "professional mischief maker and provocateur," published its profile of the gay Breitbart tech editor on its website Wednesday, complete with photo shoot. It will span eight pages in the next printed magazine. The journalists' open letter calls it "dangerous" and a "puff piece."
Zack Ford, the LGBT section editor at ThinkProgress, was one of those who spoke out against the magazine on Twitter, but he decided to do something more. Ford authored the open letter now signed by Goff and called the profile a "serious problem." "This puff piece — complete with a cutesy clown photoshoot — makes light of Yiannopoulos’s trolling while simultaneously providing him a pedestal to further extend his brand of hatred," wrote Ford on behalf of the journalists. The list now also includes three current Out employees plus Goff, its founding editor.
Ford told The Advocate that the Yiannopoulos profile is a turning point in LGBT journalism: "This is a moment that simply symbolizes how bad erasure and negligence can get, a clear-cut example that is just inexcusable." But he stopped short of calling for a retraction, public apology, or more.
(...) Yiannopoulos has only gotten more attention after Twitter banned him for inspiring a racist mob that attacked Saturday Night Live comedian Leslie Jones.
Yiannopoulos has also started a scholarship fund for white men only, written articles critical of feminism (which he says is being pushed by "****s"), and claimed transgender people don't exist — a false claim he repeated along with an anti-trans slur in the Out magazine profile. Since getting banned from Twitter, he's started a college lecture tour, along the way accusing lesbians of faking hate crimes.
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http://www.advocate.com/media/2016/9...nd-out-doubles
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