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.

Tip Sheets on LGBT Coverage

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.

LGBT Media Map

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.

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.

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.

Articles & Columns

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.

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.