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Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Tags: glaad, at&t, tmobile, merger, fcc, letter, jarret barrios, six board members, gay rights, organizations, activists, controversy, business news

Updated Thursday, 9:35 a.m. EST

The storm of controversy sparked by the AT&T/T-Mobile merger letter of recommendation GLAAD sent to the FCC doesn't seem to be dissipating anytime soon. First, the controversial letter of support that left the LGBT community scratching its collective chin lead to GLAAD President Jarret Barrios's resignation over the weekend. On Wednesday, six more heads of the organization reportedly topple. Today, GLAAD releases its first official statement on the string of resignations. Read it after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 02 June 2011
Tags: jose luis sin censura, spanish-language, tv, fcc complaint, glaad, media, homophobia, bigots, d-bags, violence, anti-gay, hate speech, at&t, time warner, controversy, boycott

On Thursday morning, GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) were happy to announce the first major success of a national campaign asking advertisers to pull out of the vehemently anti-gay Spanish-language "Jose Luis sin Censura" show: AT&T and Time Warner Cable have pulled advertising from the show.

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Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Monday, 28 February 2011
Tags: glaad, jose luis sin censura, hate speech, bigots, spanish language, tv, reality, talk shows, fcc, complaint, homophobia

An FCC complaint on behalf of GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Coalition has been filed against Jose Luis sin Censura, a Spanish-language TV show, for broadcasting on mulitple occassions anti-gay hate speech and promoting violence against LGBT guests appearing on the show. An example of the hate speech and homophobia producers of the show regularly encourage can be found in the YouTube clip embedded in this post.

From GLAAD's press release announcing the FCC complaint:

In over twenty episodes that aired between June 18 and December 7, 2010, the program contained images and language of the nature that is never displayed or is bleeped out of pre-taped English-language programs of the same nature, including the words "pinche"...

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