Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology
"Gay marriage" or "marriage rights for same-sex couples?" Is there anything wrong with referring to an "alternative lifestyle?" Is using the word "queer" ever acceptable? NLGJA's Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology answers these questions and complements other stylebook resources.
NLGJA offers topical tip sheets by reporters for reporters covering current issues relating to the LGBT Community. Current tip sheets include: Getting the Marriage Story Right: the History, Current Law & the Future.
This map of LGBT media and news outlets is a growing public awareness project started spring 2011 to provide local sources of information about and for the LGBT community in your area.
NLGJA has launched a weekly feature that will showcase the front pages of LGBT newspapers. Any paper is invited to be included in this new offering. To have your paper's front page be a part of this, email a PDF copy to Bach Polakowski at bach@nlgja.org.
With stories about the LGBT community making news in beats from health to education and everywhere in between, NLGJA's Journalists Toolbox is designed to provide information and strategies to journalists who find themselves seeking creative, unique and accurate means of covering the LGBT community.
The Newsroom Outreach Project is a member-based professional development program that works to further NLGJA’s mission through meetings with broadcast, print and online newsrooms across the country. It's a moderated discussion, designed to help journalists better understand issues that affect LGBT individuals and their community.
From being the "go-to gay" to making a gender transition on the job, these columns and articles written by NLGJA members document the unique professional lives of LGBT journalists, as well as the LGBT coverage issues that form the cornerstone of NLGJA's vital mission work.