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August 22, 2005

No Service

While the national media extensively reports on the sentencing of Eric Rudolph for the Olympic Park bombing in 1996 (an event I witnessed then in person), almost all reports fail to mention his bombing that same year in Atlanta of a lesbian bar - which seriously injured four people. The reporting is symptomatic of the treatment of the LGBT community in Atlanta herself.

Just as local residents understand that the Rudolph terrorism specifically targeted the city's LGBT community, local residents also recognize the need to support and encourage the growth of the LGBT community within the city.

Yet, despite the largest LGBT community in the South - and perhaps the largest African American LGBT population in the nation - there have been no reports on Rudolph's impact on gay Atlanta. Similarly, Georgia Republicans have also ignored this population when passing vicious, anti-gay legislation curtailing marriage equality and employment opportunity.

Both the Georgia GOP, and the national media, have ignored the LGBT community in Atlanta. The result has guilted one party with bad coverage, and the other with bad policy.

Posted by John at August 22, 2005 09:09 AM