Swinging from the chandelier?
Sarah Kate Ellis GLAAD’s Sarah Kate Ellis’ expenses — including a $20K home office remodel with a chandelier — call ethics into question EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is based on an investigation by the New York Times: NYTimes.com/2024/08/01/business/glaad-ceo-spending.html?searchResultPosition=2 What would you suggest if a politician used public tax funds to rent a seven-bedroom Swiss chateau, remodel their home office with your tax dollars, rent a vacation home in Provincetown for their family and enjoy first-class air travel and Mercedes car service at their whim?
You’d likely call for their resignation or at the very least an investigation to determine if any laws were broken. The same standards should apply to leaders of our LGBT nonprofits.
All the examples I just mentioned were actions taken by GLAAD’s head, Sarah Kate Ellis, who has led GLAAD since 2014. While she has built a formidable organization, raking in millions of your donations, she seems to have become excessively comfortable with spending those donations on her own lifestyle.
There used to be a term for those overpaid within our community: “Gay Inc.” Her spending is nothing less than — and I’m being polite here — gay greed.
