Gay Media Project
Name of Organization: Gay Media Project
The Gay Media Project was formed by John Wiles, Bob Schoenberg, and others, including an approximately equal number of women since gender parity was a concern and objective of the group.
The Group's mission was to monitor media coverage concerning Lesbians and gay people, to promote accurate, realistic and positive coverage of gay issues and persons in print, radio, and television.
GMP also organized opposition to negative and stereotypical portrayals of gays and Lesbians in television programming, initiating letter writing campaigns to national networks and local affiliates.
Two such campaigns involved an episode of "Policewoman" starring Angie Dickinson, entitled "Flowers of Evil" in which a character played by Linda Blair was brutally sexually attacked by a character depicted as a Lesbian.
The other involved an episode of "Marcus Welby, M.D."
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