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...Pentagon found its rationale under severe attack last week when the Advocate, a Los Angeles gay magazine, claimed that a prominent Defense Department official was homosexual. The Advocate said that while it does not generally condone "outing," it wanted to call attention to the hypocrisy of the Pentagon's policy on gays. Despite their fine performance in the war, nearly 1,000 gay and lesbian soldiers have been investigated and discharged this year. The flurry of criticism has Pentagon officials squirming to justify a policy whose existence and enforcement seem so at odds with the realities of American society...
...quality control. The article exposing the official was printed last week by the Advocate, a Los Angeles- based gay magazine published every two weeks. In a blatant bid for publicity and newsstand sales, the magazine faxed dozens of advance copies to mainstream journalists. The cover line referred to "outing" the official, a ( gay neologism for exposure of a homosexual by other homosexuals. The author, Michelangelo Signorile, pioneered the tactic in the defunct New York City gay magazine, OutWeek...
Though many major dailies declined to name the official, countless smaller papers ran the Anderson-Van Atta column. Among them was Pennsylvania's Harrisburg Patriot, from which the item was in turn excerpted for a Pentagon news summary distributed to 10,000 employees. Other dailies covered the outing debate. The Detroit News named the official twice in news stories; the New York Daily News identified him in a gossip column. All four TV news networks decided not to use the official's name, but secondary outlets used it, including cable channel CNBC, a corporate sibling of NBC piped into nearly...
...Angeles-based Advocate tried to get publicity for itself by offering an advance copy of the piece to major news outlets that would agree to run it. Although the individual has not been antigay or hypocritical or done any of the other things gay groups use as excuses for "outing" people, Jack Anderson broke the story in his syndicated column, deciding that being first was better than being right...
Some gay activists have undertaken a campaign of "outing" -- exposing well- known people who are believed to be gay. Is this right...