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GLAAD to Watch the Media’s Queer Coverage

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has launched a new Website called “Newsroom ‘08,” to track how media talk about issues affecting to the LGBT community as they pertain to local, state and national elections in November. The site offers video clips of comments by candidates and pundits on queer issues, a blog with analysis of election coverage, and resources for both journalists and media watchers.

“Election years give us increased opportunity to talk about our issues and to hold media accountable for fair, accurate and inclusive coverage,” said GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. “Newsroom ‘08 provides a unique analysis and insight on media coverage of the November elections as they pertain to LGBT issues.”

“GLAAD has been hard at work holding media accountable at the national and local levels,” said Rashad Robinson, GLAAD’s senior director of programs. “Newsroom ‘08 gives journalists and community members additional resources to move beyond oversimplification and to promote election coverage that portrays the LGBT community and issues in a fair, accurate and inclusive light.”

OutQ’s Presidential Caucus Chock Full of SIRIUS Discussion

SIRIUS Satellite Radio just wrapped up its three-hour forum on Democratic presidential politics on its OutQ channel, and results are in from the accompanying Web and phone polls conducted in conjunction with the program. Prominent supporters of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debated LGBT issues with caucus host Michelangelo Signorile and callers, including yours truly. Interestingly, the results were different depending on whether the voter weighed in by phone or online. Signorile suggested that the differing results could be attributed to blog links to the poll, while phone votes were more likely to come from those who were listening in on their satellite radios rather than the online version of the channel. Obama won the online poll, 59 to 39 percent. This was a significant turnaround from earlier in the show, when Clinton was leading at one point by more than 70 percent. In phone voting, Clinton won the poll 60 percent to Obama’s 40.

The poll results and live conversation seem to reflect the angst that LGBT voters feel about choosing between the lesser of two evils. Hilary Rosen, president of ourchart.com and a supporter of Senator Clinton, rightly and repeatedly asserted that neither candidate was right on gay marriage, including the one she was there to (unofficially) represent. Stampp Corbin (the National LGBT Liaison for the Obama campaign, and Co-Chair of the National LGBT Leadership Team, Obama for America ’08) was somewhat more hesitant to characterize his candidate’s positions on LGBT rights as less than ideal. When called out by Rosen for his efforts to defend Obama, Corbin said he saw his role in the caucus as that of explaining his candidate’s position rather than defending them. Overall, though, both participants offered generally honest and frank comments on the candidates’ positions with good humor and respect–a lesson the campaigns themselves would be well advised to adopt.

In my question to Rosen and Corbin, I pointed out that candidate positions on LGBT issues are what they are for the duration of this primary season. I asked both to look ahead to the general election and discuss viability. A thoughtful discussion ensued about which candidate is the more electable. Would a Democratic ticket headed by Clinton re-energize the right wing that demonizes her? Would Clinton scandals resurface and hurt the Democrat’s chances to win the White House? And in the case of Obama, how well did he handle former President Bill Clinton’s attacks on his comments about President Reagan’s role in bringing different ideas to the national stage than had been pursued before? Was he tested enough when it comes to standing up to the Republican attack machine, called “reverse plastic surgery” by (ironically) President Clinton?

Without a crystal ball, there is no definitive answer, of course. Rosen and Corbin both made reasonable arguments for their candidates. Rosen pointed out that Clinton has been thoroughly tested by proxy, after her husband’s eight years of attack and investigation. Corbin described Obama as no John Kerry, assuring listeners that Obama would not hesitate to respond and neutralize Republican attacks. Show host Signorile made an interesting point that recent claims that Obama is a Muslim resulted in questions about its accuracy from his otherwise rational, liberal-leaning callers. It does give one pause to think that American voters could fall for more Swift-Boat-Veterans-style propoganda. But Obama did respond quickly to the allegation, which is false, with a faith-oriented speech and repeated statements informing the public of his Methodist Church membership.

In a follow-up, Rosen asked me if I thought a Democrat could win in Georgia. I responded that I do. Perhaps my faith in my fellow Georgians is irrational optimism. But I pointed out that two of our largest counties, metro Atlanta’s Cobb and Gwinnett, have trended more Democratic in recent years and are expected to continue going blue by many political observers. In retrospect, I should have added that the key to a Democratic victory, in my opinion, will rest more on voter turnout than on the political leanings of the electorate. In the 2004 primaries here, many victories were won by only a few hundred votes. Metro Atlanta, like many cities, can be generally described as more liberal than our country neighbors. The ATL is also home to one of the nation’s largest LGBT populations. But 2004 turnout in the city was not strong enough to overcome radical conservative votes motivated by the Republican’s gay marriage wedge. There is no such wedge issue that has surfaced so far this political season. Republican efforts to make immigrants the next target of their demonization has lacked the punch that homophobia gave them.

Whether you support Clinton or Obama, it’s critical that you vote–in the primary and the general election. While the LGBT community has no perfect ally, Republicans are clearly enemies of equality. Not to mention their mismanagement of an unnecessary war, their denial of climate change, and their asleep-at-the-wheel governance when it came to Hurrican Katrina and now the economy. In 2004, Democrats often repeated the slogan, “ABBA: Anybody But Bush Again.” In 2008, perhaps we should use Stephen Colbert’s election coverage catch phrase as our new bumper sticker: “Don’t F#@k This Up America.”

LGBT Voters to Get Sirius About Their Presidential Choices

SIRIUS Satellite Radio is holding a “queer caucus” of sorts tomorrow on The Michelangelo Signorile Show. The show is a part of the Internet and satellite radio company’s OutQ LGBT radio channel 109. The SIRIUS event is well, seriously not an actual caucus, of course, but rather a chance for the LGBT community to discuss the candidates’ positions amongst ourselves. The Michelangelo Signorile Show “caucus” will air live from 3:00 until 5:00 EDT tomorrow (January 31).

Appearing on the program will be Hilary Rosen in support of Senator Hillary Clinton, and Stampp Corbin for Senator Barack Obama. Rosen is president of the lesbian social networking site OurChart.com, an active public speaker, and regularly appears on national TV as a political and business commentator. It does not appear that Rosen is officially affiliated with the Clinton campaign. Corbin is the National LGBT Liaison for the Obama campaign and co-chair of the National LGBT Leadership Team, Obama for America ‘08. A high-tech entrepreneur, Corbin also served on The Board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign from 1996-2003 and has also served as co-chair of HRC’s Finance Committee Co-Chair.

Also scheduled to appear was Eric Stern, a political advisor to the John Edwards for President Campaign. Sirius has not announced whether or not Stern will still appear, now that Edwards has bowed out of the campaign. Sterns is an attorney, educator, social activist and veteran of multiple Democratic campaigns. In the 2004 election cycle, Stern served as the Director of LGBT Outreach at the Democratic National Committee where he developed a voter mobilization plan that helped to turnout more than 3.5 million LGBT votes for Democratic candidates nationally, according to the Sirius press release.

The guests will discuss the candidates’ platforms and views, and take questions from callers. Sirius has more than 8 million subscribers who listen to its commercia-free programming on satellite radios or over the Internet. If you are not one of them, you can still listen in and participate. Just sign up for a three-day free trial here.

After all the talk, how will we know where the LGBT audience stands? Sirius Spokesperson Hillary Schupf tells Life on Q that “listeners are encouraged to participate in an online poll, where they can vote in the caucus for their candidate of choice.” Voting will be open during the show and results will be announced at the end. With “super-duper” Tuesday less than a week away, and John Edwards abandoning his candidacy, it will be interesting to see how candidate positions, and LGBT support, have shifted since last summer’s Presidential Forum on Logo TV.

News of the Obvious: Jody Foster is a Big Dyke

Breaking News of the Obvious Alert. This news should move lesbians everywhere– like “t’ee in the way!” Jody Foster, the object of thousands of dyke crushes, has finally acknowledged that the sky is blue, the earth is round, and she is a lesbian. Accepting the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100 event last week, Foster thanked “my beautiful Cydney” during her acceptance speech. She then added that Cydney “sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss.”

Although references to and rumors of her lesbianism are many, the mention of producer Cydney Bernard in front of the Hollywood Reporter crowd is Foster’s first public reference to her 15-year relationship with Bernard. The two are reported to have met while Foster was filming Sommersby in 1993. Bernard was a production coordinator for the film. Foster has always refused to discuss the paternity of her children. She even ignored Out magazine’s picture of her on their cover (along with CNN’s Anderson Cooper) with the headline, “The Glass Closet: Why the Stars Won’t Come Out and Play.”

Interestingly, the Hollywood Reporter seems to be playing down the news, with no overt references to Foster’s self-acknowledgment on their Website. The only mass media references I could find were at The Arizona Republic’s website AZCentral and at The Times Online out of London. Both articles were published today, even though Foster’s comments were made on December 4.

Perhaps the mainstream media’s subtlety is testament to Foster’s power. The reknowned actress is the winner of two Academy Awards and more than two dozen other honors (including both a Golden Globe and Screen Actor’s Guild Award for her performance in “Nell,” one of my personal favorites). She earns millions for her acting, including a $15 million check for The Brave One, released in September of this year. She ranks 57th on Entertainment Weekly’s “Greatest Movie Stars” of all time and most recently appeared on EW’s 2007 list of “The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.” Her clout and connections may be the cause of the lack of mainstream media coverage. Or perhaps a confirmation of what is already known is just not news.

Fall From Grace a Prophetic Title for Showtime Documentary

We’re not in Kansas anymore. If only Fred Phelps had a heart. I TiVO’d K. Ryan Jones’ documentary about Phelps, Fall from Grace, which premiered last night on Showtime, (which will air five more showings on its networks as well as on-demand availability). Watching it over coffee this morning was a rude awakening. Seeing so much hate was so vile, I thought I would throw up my Cream of Wheat. Fred Phelps is pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, a congregation that consists only of his immediate family, according to the documentary. The Phelps family began picketing to publicize their hatred of homosexuals in the spring of 1991. In the 16+ years since, they have staged more than 22,000 protests, most targeting GLBT events and gatherings.

Sitting clean-shaven (forbidden by God: Leviticus 19:27) before the camera in his Golden Girls sweat suit, no doubt weaved of many fibers (forbidden by God: Leviticus 19:19), Phelps cloaks his hate in religion. He spells out his biblical justification literally, quoting Leviticus 18:22 (including clarifying the exact punctuation). “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind SEMICOLON it is abomination.”

Apparently that’s all the bible-reading Phelps did. He missed the PARAGRAPH later in the chapter, where it says, ” “Though shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart COLON ‘thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neghbour COMMA and not suffer sin upon him PERIOD.” Then, in the next PARAGRAPH, the bible emphasizes the point: “Though shalt no avenge COMMA nor bear any grduge against the children of thy people COMMA but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself COLON I am the Lord.”

I will leave biblical scholars to debate interpretation of Leviticus, that tool of intolerance. I will leave it to ministers to justify why some Leviticus Laws are to be followed and others can be ignored. I will pause only to point out that the recently published Bible study guide, Study New Testament for Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgender, is just the most recent scholarly challenge to literal Leviticus interpretation. Dr. Ann Nyland, an ancient Greek language scholar and lexicographer, indicates that “arsenokoites,” the Greek word assumed to mean homosexual, actually has a range of meanings, including one who anally penetrates another (whether female or male)–but can also mean a rapist, a murderer or an extortionist. She also asserts that the fabled fall of Sodom and Gomorrah was due to angels having sex with humans, not homosexuality.

What I found unbelievable in “Fall from Grace” was the disapproval of Phelps by other ministers. In the film, the Reverend Jeff Gannon, pastor of the Wichita, Kansas Chapel Hill Fellowship, (a different Jeff Gannon than the former gay prostitute-turned-conservative-blogger) said he “feels bad because Phelps gives Christians a bad name.” Yet Gannon and thousands of Christians like him do little to oppose their church’s official policies of intolerance, exclusion and condemnation of the LGBT community. Injustice is everywhere in the majority of Christian denominations. Dr. Martin Luther King warned us from a Birmingham jail cell more than 40 years ago: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

The injustice afflicted on LGBT Americans has recently threatened a different just cause: support for American troops in Iraq. The Phelps family has found a new target for their rage, and it is the right wing’s revered military forces. Phelps believes that homosexuals are taking over the U.S. military and the nation, and that soldiers killed in action in Iraq are proof of God’s vengeance. Phelps says God hates fags and is punishing America for allowing homosexuality to exist. He makes his point with protests at the funerals of American troops killed in Iraq.

While most Americans sat passively by for Phelps’ ranting against “fags,” his disrespect for American troops prompted a little more action. In May 2006, President Bush signed an amendment to U.S. law that prohibits protests within 300 feet of military funerals at national cemeteries and outlaws them altogether for an hour before and an hour after the service. In April 2007, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a similar state law. Other states added their own restrictions, including Kentucky and North Dakota. I did a little research and was unable to find any similar protections for funerals for gays and lesbians, another common Phelps family tactic. America tolerates homophobia.

But Phelps’ agenda seems more sinister than simple homophobia. In the documentary, Phelps declares that America is doomed. His son Timothy tells us his family’s goal is to “put the cup of God’s fury to the lips of this nation and make them drink.” The pickets signs are the writing on the wall. Their messages include “Fags are worthy of death,” and “USA=Fag Nation.” In case you fail to make the connection, others are clearer, such as “Thank God for 9/11.” He has stoked his rage, building a firestorm of hate toward his own country.

What we learn from Jones’ documentary is that Phelps’ rage runs deep. Two of his 13 children are interviewed by phone for the film, and recount vicious beatings from their father. Yet only four of his 13 children left the family and their church, a testimony to the power of his personality. There have been other “religious” men with similar holds on their families and followers, like Jim Jones, for example. It’s called a cult.

“Fall from Grace” is an important film. It should be required viewing for the Christian right. They should have to face what their hate helped create. It should be required viewing for the LGBT community. We should understand the danger that faces us, lest we choose to donate a dollar at Pride or join HRC and assume the fight for acceptance and inclusion is handled. It should be required viewing for any American who has fallen for the social conservative agenda.

I’ll close this post after one more dip in the quotationspage.com well. The Reverend Ralph W. Sockman said, “The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

NYC Wants Gays and Lesbians to be a Part of It

NYC & Company, New York City’s official tourism organization, has launched the city’s first-ever effort to attract LGBT tourists. The New York Post reports that the group will air commercials on LOGO, MTV’s gay and lesbian channel, has placed a three-page ad in the Decmeber/January issue of Out magazine and will buy ads on several LGBT Websites. The GLBT campaign is a part of a $30 million marketing campaign called “This is New York City,” targeting 19 different countries. It’s all part of Mayor Bloomberg’s inititative to bring 50 million visitors to New York City by 2015.

The LGBT-targeted promotion will continue over the next several weeks, then accelerate in time for Valentine’s Day. NYC & Company told the Post that it is targeting the GLBT community because market demographics show the community “contains a large number of big spenders, usually with two incomes and no children. They are ‘highly desirable and considered a dream market due to high incidence of travel and discretionary income.’”

NYC & Company also offers LGBT information and links for travelers on its Website in a section called Gay and Lesbian New York.

The LGBT Web is All G with Little L, B or T

Blogging is a lot of work. Sometimes I ask myself if all this effort has any value to me or to the queer world. Life on Q is currently a non-commercial site. I’m not earning any money with advertising or reader donations. But I keep blogging away, hoping that others like me will find the blog or hear a podcast, ultimately creating a forum where the LGBT community can explore and discuss the ideas and issues that really affect our lives. Ultimately, I hope to support this effort through affiliate programs and Web ads that will make the effort worth the time I invest. Life on Q steals a lot of bandwidth from my paid writing and consulting gigs. In the meantime, I keep blogging on, taking advantage of a platform for expressing my thoughts and sharing information I feel is important to the LGBT community. I don’t attempt to provide comprehensive news. I leave that to the for-profit efforts like Southern Voice here in Atlanta and national media like The Advocate. I read their content, and I appreciate their efforts. I just wish their was more meat in a lot of what many of them dish.

Today I took a tour of some of the leading gay and lesbian Websites and LGBT blogs out there to see what I might add to the conversation. What I found reinforced for me the reasons I started Life on Q. The gay Web and the gay blogosphere are decidedly gay, with very little lesbian, bisexual or transgender content. And what’s worse, a lot of the queer Web content strikes me as shallow. I mean seriously, how many fashion and celebrity and gossip features do we need? What about the ideas and issues that really affect the queer community? And what do all the “hot guys of the day” photos mean to me?

Gay Websites Are Light on Lesbians, Bi’s and Trannies

On The Advocate Insider blog, I clicked on their lesbian category to see what kind of coverage came up. Their last post on lesbian-specific issues was almost six months ago (May 25, 2007, to be exact). Their youth-oriented blog GenQ is better, but would be better named GenG, as it is decidedly boy-centric. At Curve, the most successful lesbian magazine, there’s respectable coverage of important issues. But overall, it tends to be all The L Word, all the time. Curve has no blog. At Out magazine today, their Website has not a single photo of a woman, nor any articles on women on their homepage. No blog there either.

LGBT Blogs are Better

AOL’s QueerSighted blog does a better job at balancing gay and lesbian issues, but there’s little bi or transgender content, and most of their blog posts lean heavily toward celebrity dish and pop culture. To their credit, there are some good posts on politics. Who’s doing a good job? I respect Queerty’s coverage of politics, hate crime and gay rights. Their meat is well done. Interestingly, they did not make the finalist cut for the 2007 Weblog Awards. (Voting is open through November 8, if you care to cast a click for your choice. Life on Q, less than a year old, is not on the list.) And Pam’s hot on important issues at Pam’s House Blend, a Weblog award winner for best LGBT blog in 2005 and 2006. For transgender blogging, I read T-Equality, the National Center for Transgender Equality’s blog. I have not run across any bisexual-specific blogs. Surely they’re out there. If you have one or know of one you like, post a comment. These are by no means all the blogs out there, nor am I declaring these are the best there are. These are the ones I’ve personally run across and revisited over time.

I am convinced that there’s an appetite for more than pop culture. I think issues like politics, health and wellness, spirituality and workplace issues matter more than yet another gay personals site. I long ago got tired of reading the most successful gay magazines starting from the back of the book, because lesbian coverage was always relegated to the last couple of pages. I think alternative culture deserves a voice too, featuring “non-mainstream” LGBT artists.

My plan for Life on Q is not to replace national, for-profit queer media. It’s not to outblog the other LGBT bloggers, or out-podcasting other queercasters. It’s a project rooted in a desire to start dialog and share stories about everyday life as it exists for all the working, parenting, worshiping, voting, thinking queers out there. It’s an effort to build community and create greater involvement and activism in the issues and movements that affect how we live and how we’re treated–by our government, our churches and our communities at large. I hope you’ll stick with me, and participate, in a Life on Q.

Gay History Month is Officially Underway

Gay History Month is officially underway, and leading publishers serving the queer community announced their second annual Gay History Project, a series of feature articles that will run in more than LGBT-oriented newspapers, according to the trade magazine Editor & Publisher. The project’s founder and coordinator, Philadelphia Gay News Publisher Mark Segal, told Editor & Publisher that the combined circulation of the papers set to print the articles is more than 700,000, making it the largest queer media promotion in the history of the gay press.

Participating publications include the Philadelphia Gay News; Dallas Voice; Windy City Times, Chicago; Between The Lines, Detroit; Bay Windows, Boston; Frontiers, Los Angeles; Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco; Seattle Gay News; Metro Weekly, Washington, D.C.; Out Front Colorado; insideOut of Nashville; The Gay People’s Chronicle, Cleveland; QsaltLake; Vital Voice of St Louis; the Gazette, Tampa; and Out and About of Tennessee.

CBS News and MTV Networks Contribute Gaffes to Logo’s Presidential Forum

The Logo Channel’s presidential candidate forum, held live tonight from Los Angeles, was historic. The network’s Visible Vote ‘08 effort should be lauded. Then CBS News and MTV ruined the mood. Fresh off the high of the first-ever presidential forum on LGBT issues, the bliss of history got a black eye from CBS.

First was CBS on Logo Anchor Jason Bellini’s stumbling, shrugging coverage. It started with what smelled like the edge of transgender acceptance. Introducing Anchor Itay Hod’s next interview, Bellini emphasized that the interview was with “a woman….who we saw her face in this forum.”

His sidekick jumped right in with an awkwardly inappropriate wrap-up question for former city manager Susan Stanton, fired after revealing she is transgendered. He almost giggled the question, “Some people have concerns voting for a woman. I assume you don’t have any issue with that?”

Sharing his insight into LGBT trends, Bellini declared that “faith is really a cutting edge LGBT issue.”

We later learn from his political insight when he informs us that “LGBT people get dissed after the primaries.”

Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese apparently has a new title. It’s “Head.”

In his final question for forum moderator Margaret Carlson, columnist for Bloomberg News and former Washington Bureau Chief for Time Magazine, Bellini seemed desperate to get a clue: “Was there any news made tonight?”

You got your gay TV! We want your money!

Then, there was the bizarre declaration of “We’re using you, and we want your money!” by Judy McGrath, the Chairman (sic) and CEO of MTV Networks. In the interest of full disclosure, that is not an exact quotation. This is an exact quote: “It feels like it’s in the tradition of the best things about our company, when we engage people in the, you know, public, with under-served, passionate, important consumers that might otherwise go unheard.”

Later, she tagged Logo’s expansion online as another way LGBT people can consume the network’s product. She sold us that Logo Online allows “even many more people to access the content, the entertainment, the message of Logo.”

Her most authentic, passionate moment? When she effused: “They are a great marketing opportunity! They’re smart, educated, passionate, fantastic, you know, consumers. So I’m absolutely thrilled!”

Giving this roast a rest

After a snack of Cheez-Its and milk, it seems selfish to criticize a corporation that had the courage to take advantage of every market opportunity, without prejudice. With the Logo Channel, MTV Networks risked advertiser loyalty, political favor and public opinion. So they deserve thanks for their vision, support for their willingness to include political and social programming, and a little encouragement to improve on execution. Logo could use a little tweaking. Like having their programming sync with what TiVO says is recording. Or working with corporate sister CBS to send over talent that is eligible to vote to cover unprecedented political history. But Logo’s Visible Vote’08 is a major step forward for LGBT political visibility. Thank you.

Awkward candidate improv

The candidates, for their part, were by and large contemplative–almost self-conscious in their attempts to put their participation in the forum into a philosophical perspective. All expressed a commitment to equality for all people and emphasized the importance of taking “gay marriage” off the table as a political card to play for bigots. Some were more effective than others in seeming sincere, explaining positions in a conciliatory tone, and getting through some high-level details on policy without stepping on any political land mines. Of course, as they felt their way through the gay agenda, the candidates themselves offered up a few off-message moments as well. More on that in a separate post.

Kroger: Right (Wing?) Store’s Wrongs Are No Victory for Gay Rights

When Kroger banned Out & About newspaper from 34 Nashville-area Kroger stores and three Harris Teeter stores on May 31, they may have been just getting started. In June, Kroger expanded its effort to cleanse its stores of all things homosexual when music by openly gay performers was banned from its stores, a confidential source told the Nashville Scene. According to the source inside Kroger headquarters in Cincinatti, Ohio, all of the chain’s stores nationwide will be silent when it comes to piping in Elton John, Melissa Etheridge and other openly gay recording artists.

In the newspaper flap, a Kroger spokeswoman first claimed it had removed the LGBT-oriented Out and About because the paper promoted a political, religious or other specific agenda, a violation of company policy. Then on July 2, Kroger Group Vice President of Corporate Affairs Lynn Marmer issued a written statement explaining that the original ban on Out & About was because “standard procedures” for approving distribution had not been followed by DistribuTech, the company contracted to fill the free publication bins at the grocery stores. Perhaps Kroger took a page from Karl Rove’s war spin: if your initial excuse backfires, just pick a new reason to justify your actions and spin again.

The “distribution procedure” spin came on the same day the grocer agreed to return Out & About to eight Nashville-area stores. Even though the paper’s return results in a net loss of distribution in 26 stores, or more than 75 percent, gay groups were quick to declare a victory. Christopher Sanders, president of the Tennessee Equality Project, was quoted on Out & About’s Website describing the “compromise” as “a victory for good business, dialogue and cooperation.”

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