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Advocate, The, Dec 6, 2005
As part of Time Warner, AOL now provides benefits for gay domestic partners and workplace protections for gay and lesbian employees. But its pre-Time Warner missteps on gay issues were several:
* In 1997, a company employee, defying AOL policy, confirmed the identity of Timothy McVeigh to the Navy, which was investigating gay postings from an anonymous serviceman. In a court settlement AOL paid undisclosed damages to the 17-year veteran, who was forced to retire with full benefits.
* In November 1999, AOL met with LGBT groups angry over the company's censoring of gay and lesbian personal profiles while turning a blind eye to antigay hate speech in postings and chat rooms. The sitdown with HRC and GLAAD resulted in online policy revisions.
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* In 2000 gay activists learned that Jean Case, wife of AOL cofounder and CEO Steve Case, had donated $8.35 million to a private Florida school run by the antigay Coral Ridge Ministries. It soon became known that the Cases donated to other antigay groups as well.
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