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A note to people who read the "Class Notes" section of their college alumni magazines: You never know where those tidbits are coming from. Two male New York graduates of American University filed a lawsuit claiming their alumni magazine falsely stated they were just-married life partners.
The Post describes the plaintiffs as "Ross Weil, 29, and Brett Royce, 28, college buddies and former New York housemates" who are now looking for $1.5 million in damages from American University's American Magazine for "gross negligence." The Class Notes stated that Weil and Royce had married last year and were "leaders of a nonexistent group called the Gay Rights Brigade."
Weil and Royce's lawyer said told the Post his clients didn't submit the information, "No one contacted my clients to check the information...It has nothing to do with homophobia." No - not there's anything wrong with that! Anyway, American Magazine says it does check the information, but that's a lot of legwork for those class notes. For instance, are they going to make sure that all ten graduates of the same class were at the same wedding?
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Nobody is going to sue you if you misreport who was at a wedding. A quick Google search of "Gay Rights Brigade" might have been a good idea.
Nobody is going to sue you if you misreport who was at a wedding.
Famous last words, in today's lawsuit-happy society.
The concern is that lawsuits of this sort may have a "chilling effect" on alumni magazines, making them reluctant to print class notes. I would imagine that many such magazines lack the resources to do much fact checking.
It's not homophobia, yeah right.. Gay panic, anyone?
Answer to the headline: as often as one should spell check.
Can they prove that they are not gay?
Whether they're gay or not doesn't really matter. It's still their right to out themselves, or not, when and how they choose to. It would be nice if outing oneself or being outed by someone else was irrelevant, but I think we all know that that is not how our society works at the moment.
Famous last words, in today's lawsuit-happy society.
Well, they can try to sue you but what are the damages for misreporting wedding guests?
Is it now homophobic to not want to be mistaken as gay?
it's the same as any other misrepresentation. like if the alumni mag had stated they were both in prison for dealing drugs. or reported that they were both dead.
"it's the same as any other misrepresentation. like if the alumni mag had stated they were both in prison for dealing drugs. or reported that they were both dead."
is it also the same as if the alumni mag had reported that they had started a Fortune 500 company? Why are your examples both bad?
[10] is right. The fact that they are suing shows some strong underlying homophobia.
Hmmm... it may indicate underlying homophobia in the culture but it doesn't necessarily indicate homophobia on the part of the two alumni.
They are damaged to the extent that this misrepresentation harms them. If the jury finds such a misrepresentation was harmful to them, they could be recompensed for their damages.
What will be interesting -- already an overstatement -- will be whether it gets revealed in the case that some numbnuts frat brother or vengeful dork actually sent in the misrepresentation.... "Dude, this is going to be so f***in' funny!"
Ha, ha.
Sounds like two homophobic sore losers! Any rational person would've had the alumni mag print a clear retraction, explaining it was a joke. But $1.5 million....sounds like they deserved it in the first place.
They are Gay Well at least one of them is I went to AU and this was well known throughout the school.
All three involved are fraternity brothers... smell something fishy?