NY Post's Offensive Antigay Headline: 'Elton and Wife'

Announcing the adoption of Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John to new dads Elton John (pictured right) and partner David Furnish (left), the New York Post continues a tradition of antigay language and cartoons running a story Wednesday with the headline “Elton and wife proud dads.”

The story by David K. Li, which ran in the print edition and online, was free of antigay slurs or language, but the headline, inaccurate, sophomoric, antigay, and anti-female, has elicited responses from blogs and editorial writers.

Gawker’s Brian Moylan points out that apart from the insult to both gay men and women, the joke is journalistically inaccurate, as the men are civil partners in the United Kingdom, though not technically married.

GLAAD reached out to the New York Post’s managing editor, but the newspaper has not changed it’s headline. In previous years GLAAD has taken to task the newspaper for calling transgender women “she-males” and for it’s insulting cartoon depictions of gay men. The watchdog group was created 25 years ago in response to the Post’s antigay AIDS coverage.

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