Anti-LGBT Group Alters Same-Sex Couple's Photo for Attack Ad

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Anti-LGBT Group Alters Same-Sex Couple's Photo for Attack Ad




Same-sex couple Brian Edwards and Tom Privitere are considering a lawsuit against an anti-gay union that photoshopped their engagement photo before cruelly displaying it in an attack ad targeting a pro-gay marriage Republican.

The attack ad, sponsored by Public Advocate of the United States, took the photo from Edwards’ personal blog and replaced the New York City skyline with a snowy Colorado landscape, the tagline reading: “State Sen. Jean White's Idea of 'Family Values?’”

The couple and photographer Krstina Hill, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), are threatening to sue the ant-gay organization and its president, Eugene Delgaudio, if they continue to use the photo.

"Our initial reaction was complete shock," Privitere, who has been with Edwards for 12 years, and now lives in Montclair, New Jersey. “We were heartbroken to see that our picture that was taken to represent love and family, and our values, and to share with other LGBT couples, was used for complete opposite purposes to induce fear and spread hate and bigotry," he said. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1032370/anti-lgbt_group_alters_same-sex_couple%27s_photo_for_attack_ad/