SF Pride Director Buys Gay Shame Domain Names
— And Uses them to Advertise Hate Speech!
July 13, 2003 - Organizers with Gay Shame (www.gayshamesf.org)
are shocked to discover that Teddy Witherington, the executive
director of the San Francisco Pride Committee, has apparently
registered three internet domains in our name and pointed
them to the web site of the loathsome-yet-laughable fundamentalist
Christian Fred Phelps (www.godhatesfags.com)!
Following is an excerpt from the gayshame.com record in the
Internet WHOIS database, the official, publicly-available
registry of Internet domains and their owners. It was taken
at 11:15pm on Sunday, July 13, 2003. Entries for gayshame.net
and gayshame.org also list the Pride Committee as registrant
and Witherington as the contact.
Domain Name: GAYSHAME.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS1.QCWEBSERVICES.COM
Name Server: NS2.QCWEBSERVICES.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 31-may-2003
Creation Date: 29-jun-2002
Expiration Date: 29-jun-2004
[whois.opensrs.net]
Registrant:
SFLGBTPCC Inc.
1230 Market Street PMB 421
San Francisco, CA 94102-4801
US
Administrative Contact:
Witherington, Teddy ed@sfpride.org
1230 Market Street PMB 421
San Francisco, CA 94102-4801
US
415-864-3733
Technical Contact:
Administrator, Domain dns@qcwebs.com
PO Box 2548
Mill Valley, CA 94942-2548
US
415-381-5998
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 31-May-2003.
Record expires on 29-Jun-2004.
Record Created on 29-Jun-2002.
How can Witherington equate Gay Shame’s exposure of
the corporatization of Pride with the homophobic hatemongering
of Fred Phelps? We are appalled that the executive director
of San Francisco Pride would resort to such immature, slanderous
tactics — and that he would apparently do so not knowing
that his move would be recorded in public. For pre-emptively
restricting his opponents’ rights to free speech, Teddy
Witherington should be ashamed. |
