MacDonald's has long been a suppoesed partner in the fight for LGBT equality, and ha held a seat on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.  However, they not yet acted upon a single one of their many promises to to the LGBT community.  They have recently begun running an excellent, gay inclusive ad campeighn in France, but failed to comment when American conservative talk show host Bill O'Reilly compared gays to terrorists, and asked, in reponse to McDonald's' TV ad "Do they have an Al-Qaeda ad, too?"  The NGLCC has severed it's ties with McDonal'd in reponse to this two-timing.

Read more here

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006030053
http://blogs.bnet.com/business-news/?p=2562

Then, please sing my petition to McDonald's CEO, James Skinner.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/McDonalds-on-both-sides

High Society on CW network is the subject of controversy. The show is about rich people doing and saying whatever they want. The trailer below shows how racist language like the N word is condoned, and how transphobic insults such as "tranny" are aired.

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/02/tell-cw-network-racist-and-transphobic.html

Salut and salaam:

The article at the following link - http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090823/local/anti-gay-graffiti-sprayed-on-walls-in-mans-home - raises a question in my mind. However, a hate crime is a hate crime and there can be and is no excuse. A friend of mine who some months back courageously went on a talk show in Valetta, Malta to open up eyes and minds. I hope this person at the end of thge hate crime is not him, of course. Still, what individuals versus what a country holds to be true can be quite different, of course

PS: I am guilty of posting this same post in two other groups with a LGBTI focus on this site. Apologies. I am not sure how much crosspollination or cross reading there may be between the groups.