The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
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Today it was announced that DC Agenda (the d.b.a of Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia, Inc.) has purchased the "late" Washington Blade's assets. The country's oldest LGBT newspaper has a 40-year print and electronic archive that is absolutely an essential resource needs to be preserved and made available to the community.
"We are relieved that the Blade's long history of quality, award-winning journalism will be preserved and accessible to the public," said Lynne Brown of Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia and publisher of DCAgenda.
Brown, along with former Blade publisher, Kevin Naff, and former Blade, senior sales executive, Brian Pitts, founded Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia to chronicle local, national, and international news of interest to the LGBT community when the Blade ceased publication on November 16, 2009. DCAgenda has published weekly since November 20, 2009.
Along with the archive, DC Agenda will have exclusive use of the name The Washington Blade including copyright and trademark rights.
This is significant because in this wave of economic collapse of the news media, and bankruptcies everywhere, the fate of both print and digital archives is no small matter. The legacy of journalism, in particular specialized outlets like the Blade, are often left in limbo, robbing future journalists, historians and students of the craft without access to rich reporting. The Blade's archives will hopefully find a home with a university library, and that the print editions will find a benefactor interested in digitizing them in searchable form.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the shocking closure of the Washington Blade has a back story that illuminates that it wasn't just a matter of a publication's parent company, Window Media, in financial trouble.
Two pieces look at this. Karen Ocamb at LGBT POV takes a look at the increasing amount of questions being raised.
Nicholas F. Benton is among the many shocked over the sudden closure of the legendary gay newspaper, the Washington Blade. But Benton's shock goes deeper: he intended to buy the Blade precisely to avoid it being shut down as part of a larger receivership process.
Benton, the openly gay owner of the DC-area Falls Church News-Press weekly, told LGBT POV that he had won a bid through his corporation, Benton Communications, Inc., to purchase the Washington Blade in order to maintain its 40-year legacy and keep what many consider the LGBT newspaper "of record" functioning in the nation's Capitol.
Though the negotiations for the buyout of the Blade involved the federal Small Business Administration (see Duncan Osborne's excellent reporting on the SBA connection for the Gay City News here), Benton said he was not informed about the closure. Benton said:
I don't know what happened. I don't know if they [the SBA] knew if it was coming, themselves. My attorney is not in touch with anyone except the Window Media bankruptcy lawyer - they were working out the plan and it was almost completely finalized. The bankruptcy court proceeding included this sale as part of it. And my lawyer said he [the bankruptcy attorney] was clueless. I think Window Media shut themselves down."
Meanwhile, over at the OutQ News Blog, Lisa Keen also reports that the owners called the shots in the decision to shut down the Blade and Southern Voice.
Small Business Administration spokesperson Mike Stamler acknowledged the SBA did receive "offers" to buy the two papers from Window Media and its business ally Unite Media. But, Stamler said, the decision to decline those offers was entirely left to Window Media and Unite, not the SBA.
In more positive news, former Blade editor Kevin Naff told LGBT POV that the staff of the publication is moving forward to continue independently.
The full staff met this morning and we've agreed to launch a new publication. A very modest version will debut Friday in print and online. In the meantime, we're about to debut a web site, savetheblade.com, where people can go to help or find related information. We've chosen a name for the publication but our lawyers are doing trademark/copyright searches now so I'm not quite ready to announce it. We will host a party tomorrow night, 6-8 pm, at the Hard Rock Cafe DC. Locals who want to share a memory or get involved in some way can meet the staff at that time.
In a survey of the compensation paid to those leading 30 LGBT and AIDS organizations, the Washington Blade has found a wide range between them. You can see the full chart here. BTW, if you thought that Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign was pulling down the most dough, you'd be wrong. Below is a snippet, plus the "top 5" from the Blade's chart:
Craig Shniderman, executive director of Food & Friends, which provides meals and nutritional services for homebound people with HIV/AIDS in the Washington, D.C. area, had the highest salary among the heads of the nation's most prominent LGBT advocacy groups and groups that provide AIDS-related services in Los Angeles, New York and D.C.
...In conducting the survey, the Blade asked the 30 organizations to disclose the salaries for their CEOs or executive directors for 2008 - the most recently completed fiscal year - as well as for the current fiscal year of 2009. The IRS 990 financial disclosure forms for nonprofit organizations do not become publicly available for two years, with the 2007 IRS forms being the latest year that the disclosure forms can be obtained by the press or public.
Twenty-six groups in the survey agreed to provide the salary and revenue figures for 2008 and 2009, even though they are not required by law to do so for one and two years successively. Four of the groups in the survey declined to provide the salary and revenue information for the most recent two years.
The groups declining to provide the information include Gay Men's Health Crisis of New York City, one of the nation's first and most prominent AIDS groups providing services to the LGBT community; the LGBT Community Center of New York City; Empire State Pride Agenda, a statewide LGBT political advocacy group in New York; and Log Cabin Republicans, a national LGBT political group based in Washington, D.C.
Before tossing off snark statements like "they aren't worth 2 cents" or "I wish they'd pay me to be as ineffective," take a few seconds to think about 1) what do we expect leaders in our community to be paid, relative to the heads of other non-profit organizations, 2) the number of FT staff onboard and the annual revenue generated by the org. The figure to look at is the percentage of compensation relative to that annual revenue; and 3) most of these orgs are in large cities in higher-paying markets, so compensation is relative to the local cost of living.
DNC - why isn't this mess cleaned up? It's a presidential election year for crying out loud, folks.
Just when you think the discrimination lawsuit filed against the Democratic National Committee by former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock was getting ugly, it spirals downward at a faster pace. (PageOneQ):
A scathing editorial to be printed in this Friday's Washington Blade will claim that attorneys representing Leah Daughtry, chief of staff of the Democratic National Committee, attempted to intimidate the paper's editor and publisher over its reporting on an ongoing discrimination lawsuit, PageOneQ has learned.
As earlier reported, a suit was filed against the DNC by former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock, alleging harassment and retaliation by top DNC staff, including Daughtry and Chairman Howard Dean. Hitchcock claims that Daughtry and Dean held him responsible for criticism of the DNC's LGBT outreach efforts by his partner, Democratic consultant Paul Yandura. Included in Yandura's criticisms were public statements urging gays to reconsider giving money to the DNC.
Intimidation, in this case, is a euphamism for allegedly unhinged behavior. Read on.
DNC - why isn't this mess cleaned up? It's a presidential election year for crying out loud, folks.
