Lesbian Couple Fights To Get Into Wedding Pages (Updated)
Latest“At least one daily newspaper is doing well enough to turn away ad dollars,” griped Dan Savage. Gay ad dollars, that is, for a gay engagement announcement in The Omaha World Herald, submitted by a bride’s parents.
As Kristin Wilke’s father wrote on the Facebook group that’s since been devoted to the cause,
Our daughter Kristin Wilke will wed Jessica Kitzman August 20, 2011, in Northern Minnesota. We are so proud we asked to buy an announcement ad in the Omaha World Herald to share our glorious news with our friends. I am disgusted to say that the publisher himself, Terry Kroeger, called me personally to say same-gender couples are not allowed to buy announcements in the Omaha World Herald. Please call 402-444-1328 or write [email protected] if this action disgusts you as it does us. Over 1500 papers sell such ads in the US. Including the NYT.
Incidentally, The New York Times began publishing same-sex wedding announcements in 2002. They even threw a Pride month party years later for all the couples that had been featured, which I attended, and in which Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. “expressed the wish that ‘our children and our grandchildren’ see the right of gays to marry as being ‘as natural as the air we breathe,” and toasted “marriage equality.” He also said that while mulling the change, he had had lunch with Times company CEO Janet Robinson and she told him she saw no possible business repercussions from the move — which she was right about.