This afternoon I wrote about The Today Show’s wedding contest and its exclusion of same-sex couples from entering. At the time 2,600 e-mails were sent to NBC urging them to reconsider, a number that is now just shy of 3,500.
This evening, some good news from GLAAD, which has been leading the effort to allow same-sex couples to enter:
Late this afternoon we received a phone call from NBC asking GLAAD to meet tomorrow with Today Show Executive Producer, Jim Bell and key NBC communications representatives.
We have accepted NBC’s invitation to sit face to face and discuss the Today Show wedding contest. We will be standing firm in urging the network to do the right thing and open the contest.
What GLAAD wants is the same thing that the thousands of people who wrote to NBC want. We want committed same-sex couples to have the same opportunity to share our stories of love and commitment and to be considered for this exciting wedding competition.
We will report back to you with any new developments after the meeting.
Here’s hoping sensibility and fairness prevail.
Again, two things you can do:
1) Sign the Change.org petition, which will send an e-mail to NBC executives, urging them to allow same-sex couples to wed.
