GAY CANADIAN CHANNEL CAUGHT UP IN OWNER'S DIVORCE

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GAY CANADIAN CHANNEL CAUGHT UP IN OWNER'S DIVORCE
Friday, March 11 2005

A bitter battle between Bill Craig, head of Canada's gay television channel, and his ex-wife could cost him control of the channel and perhaps even shut it down, the Toronto Globe & Mail reported today (Friday). According to the newspaper, Craig owes his ex-wife C$1.4 million but is virtually without assets except for his 24-percent stake in PrideVision TV, which he purchased for C$1.4 million plus assuming C$1.1 million in debt. "They're welcome to liquidate it [the controlling stake.] At the moment it's losing money," Craig said in an interview with the Globe & Mail. "It'd be kind of a dumb thing to do." Craig was the founder of ICraveTV.com, which briefly in 1999 distributed U.S. TV shows airing in Canada over the Internet. Confronted by a plethora of lawsuits from TV networks, Craig abandoned the project.

MARGE SIMPSON'S SISTER IS GAY!
Monday, February 21 2005

Sunday's episode of The Simpsons, in which it was revealed that Marge Simpson's sister Patti Bouvier is gay ("Just because you're a lesbian doesn't mean you're less of a being", says Marge), and in which Homer becomes a minister and begins marrying gay couples, telling them that their union is legal in "Massachusetts, Vermont, maybe Canada ... [but] stay out of Texas," was, as expected, denounced by conservative family-activist groups and hailed by liberals and (more)

NEW EDUCATION SECRETARY BLASTS PBS KIDS SHOW
Thursday, January 27 2005

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has lashed out at PBS for using funds from the federal Ready-To-Learn program to produce an episode of a cartoon series featuring lesbian characters. "Sugartime!," an episode of the series Postcards from Buster, shows the title character, a bunny, traveling in Vermont and learning about how maple sugar is made. During his travels, he encounters two lesbian couples. (Vermont recognizes same-sex civil unions.) In a letter to PBS chief Pat Mitchell, (more)