DC Subway Becomes Gay Battleground

(Washington, D.C.) The Washington, D.C. subway system has become a battleground in a billboard war of words over homosexuality.

Today the Human Rights Campaign announced it was launching a series of ads to counter a campaign by a group claiming homosexuality can be cured. The ads, by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, which promote the so-called "ex-gay" movement are "misleading and anti-gay," HRC said in a statement Friday. The "ex-gay" movement has been renounced by mainstream professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association.

"When we learned about the misleading and anti-gay ads Metro had accepted, we looked for a way to counter those wrong-headed messages with the truth," said Kim I. Mills, HRC's education director.

The HRC campaign, will promote equality and fairness toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans said Mills.

The ads will appear in 10 lighted dioramas on subway platforms throughout the system, which serves Washington, D.C., and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs.

The ads reads: "Equality and Fairness: Fundamental American Values." The text goes on to detail public support for GLBT issues. According to polling, 90 percent of Americans support hospital visitation rights for same-sex partners; 85 percent support equal treatment in the workplace; and 73 percent want tougher hate crimes laws including 65 percent who want hate crimes laws to include transgender Americans.

The ads by both HRC and PFOX are part of a free service the transit authority made available for public service announcements. PFOX had threatened to take the transit authority to court if its ads were not accepted.

As a result of complaints about the PFOX ads, the Metro board subsequently voted to end all free public service ads beginning Jan. 1. The HRC counter ads will the last free PSA ads accepted for the subway system.

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