The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has just selected a Republican to lead the organization, Neil G. Giuliano, the four-term mayor of Tempe, Ariz. I wish him luck; he'll need it. The organization has spent the last decade not constructively engaging the religious right (which merely served as "the enemy" in fundraising letters), and instead mainly cavorting with Hollywood celebs and issuing mindlessly politically correct denunciations (see below).
As an early GLAAD supporter, volunteer and board member of what was then GLAAD/New York, I wish Neil well. My suggestion: a thorough housecleaner, if the board allows it, of staffers who think GLAAD's mission is to advance the "progressive" agenda.
Update: In response to those who criticized me
for criticizing GLAAD, in the comments zone reader "J.P."
observes:
GLAAD was not formed as a Hollywood lobby; it was modeled on the Anti-Defamation League, and its mission was to counter far-right homophobia the way the ADL counters far-right anti-Semitism.
Over recent years, GLAAD went soft and found it easier to party with Hollywood liberals than to take on the religious right. Steve is absolutely correct in this, as anyone who remembers what GLAAD once was can attest.