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Lesbians too much for bus riders
Advocate, The, April 12, 2005 by Michael K. Lavers
Images of naked lesbians were apparently too much for one state lawmaker in Brooklyn, N.Y., who succeeded in getting a poster for Showtime's The L Word removed from a local bus stop. Republican state senator Marry Golden said a number of residents and merchants complained about the ad, which featured the program's cast in the buff. Golden added that its proximity to a school was also inappropriate. "The placement of an advertisement, so sexual in nature, should not be what local schoolchildren should be subjected to," he wrote in a March 1 letter to the city transportation department.
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Gary Parker, president of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn accused Golden of being homophobic: "It is unfortunate that the senator's views are not more aligned with the majority of Brooklynites, who pride themselves on the diversity of the greatest city in the world," he said.
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