Twin Cities GLBT Group Sues Newspaper

The Twin Cities Business Journal reports on this “discrimination and breach of contract” lawsuit arising out of the annual Twin Cities Pride event:

The organizer of the Twin Cities Pride Celebration is suing the Star Tribune after the newspaper refused to run advertisements to promote an annual GLBT festival, which showed two men kissing.

GLBT Pride Twin Cities accuses the Star Tribune of discriminationand breach of contract in a lawsuit filed in Hennepin County. The groupis an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that plans the annual TwinCities Pride event, which will be held this Saturday and Sunday. Lastyear 310,000 people attended the event.

The Star Tribune said it chose not to run the Pride advertisements in adhering to a policy on community standards

The GLBT group said the newspaper used different standards because it has printed images of heterosexual couples kissing.

The lawsuit also said the newspaper breached its contract andfailed to publish any of its ads, including one that didn’t showsame-sex couples kissing.

[Meredith R. Miller]