If you hoped the HBO Chad Griffin documentary might not be as egregiously wrong and slanted as Jo Becker’s breathless hagiography, it looks like you’ll be disappointed. See the above screen shot of the final moments, just emailed to me. As a factual matter, so far as I know, no lawsuits have been filed in those states based on the Perry decision, while 24 have been filed based on the Windsor/DOMA decision. So both Becker and HBO made a bet on the wrong case – but keep pretending they didn’t. HBO won’t send me a screener – although they did get their PR flak to call me up to see if I was going to be mean about it. I’ll wait and see the thing before passing judgment, but that screenshot made my stomach lurch. And I had to splutter when I saw this correction from the Huffington Post in a review of the trailer:
CORRECTION: A previous version of this post incorrectly stated that the Supreme Court ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The Supreme Court itself ruled that the private parties that appealed the case to the justices did not have standing to do so after the state of California had bowed out.
Somehow, I think Chad Griffin will find a way to get the world to forget that.
By the way, the “Do I Sound Gay?” kickstarter project has two more days to go and hasn’t reached its target, if you want to help out. Read about it here in our thread on the topic.
The most popular post of the day was my New York Shitty Update. Readers are going to let me have it soon enough, but I hope it’s somewhat clear I have my tongue in my cheek a bit on this. I’m not denying New York’s stunning cultural, business, media and financial depth. I’m just pointing out the vast gap between the city’s self-image and what most sane people would think of living here. My piece on Europe’s red-blue divide was runner-up again.
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