Newsroom Outreach Project

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.

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.

Journalists Toolbox

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.

Lesbians & Gays in the Newsroom: 10 Years Later (PDF)

This 2000 survey of journalists by NLGJA founder Leroy F. Aarons and his fellow researchers is a landmark study. Just as the first survey did in 1990, the thought-provoking findings by the research team at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication will stir debate and help not only our organization, but also the entire industry to reexamine ways to improve LGBT coverage in the years ahead.