Growing number of newspapers will print same-sex wedding announcements

September 1, 2008

While Proposition 8, the Protect Marriage Initiative, falters in the polls, virtually every daily newspaper in California is promoting “marriage” between people of the same gender by publishing same-sex wedding announcements, a rapidly growing practice among publishers that may explain in part what appears to be a sea change in public attitudes about an idea that just years ago seemed unthinkable.

About 83% of those who read newspapers in the U.S. are being influenced by the growing trend in the industry to accept wedding or engagement announcements from same-sex couples, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a strategy actively promoted by the group to sway public opinion on the subject. the rest