Anchor's comments anger gays, lesbians - Pete Wilson from KGO [View All]

SAN FRANCISCO
Anchor's comments anger gays, lesbians
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, October 12, 2006


San Francisco public officials and leaders of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community are demanding that a prominent radio host and television news anchor apologize for comments he made on the air about nontraditional families.

Pete Wilson, the anchor of ABC's local evening news and host of a radio show on KGO 810 AM, criticized Supervisor Bevan Dufty and his friend Rebecca Goldfader, who are sharing a home and co-parenting a newborn, during a radio broadcast Tuesday.

Their daughter, Sidney, was born last week. Wilson, who said he supports same-sex marriage and lesbian and gay couples raising children, referred to her as an "experiment" because they're not in a romantic relationship.

"The Dufty-Goldfader baby is, in my mind, a travesty," Wilson said during an hour he devoted to the topic on air. "Or a potential travesty. Perhaps that's a better way of saying it."

Later in his show, Wilson said, "At some point there is a limit to how far we stretch the self-indulgent search for the alternative that we have been involved in the last 30 or 40 years in this country."


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