by Bach Polakowski | Jun 11, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
KRXQ-FM radio hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States of the Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning program that airs in Sacramento and Reno apologized today for making hateful remarks about transgender youth. The two and a half hour program featured transgender advocate...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 11, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
As newspapers of all genres grapple with how to address – and monetize – reader movement online, the issue can be particularly vexing for LGBT media. Weekly newspapers especially struggle with how to balance coverage in their print editions and on their...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 11, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
It is a story with “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order: SVU episode written all over it. A straight, married man is found dead in the million dollar home of a gay “thruple.” At least two to the three men living together in the house are...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 10, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
While many NLGJA members work in the LGBT press, for others I think it is an area that is easy to take for granted. I always try to pick up the local newspaper or magazine to see what kind of coverage is out there and, of course, what I shouldn’t miss. Over at...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 10, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Advocacy works, even in journalism. Chris Crain, a well-known former editor of LGBT publications and the founding author of the Citizen Crain blog, provides fresh evidence. He took a months-long break from his blog, but has since returned. Here’s an excerpt of a...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 9, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
First, a confession. I don’t watch American Idol and would be hard pressed to pick Adam Lambert out of a crowd at Starbucks. But I know that everyone has assumed he was gay since the first moment he appeared on the television screen with his painted fingernails...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 9, 2009 | NLGJA Updates |
The Journalists LGBTQ+ Toolkit is designed primarily to assist journalists who don’t normally cover the LGBTQ+ community. The advice is drawn from outside media experts and our own members who are professional journalists for both mainstream media and the LGBTQ+...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 8, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
In celebration of Pride Month, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched a new Web site and campaign to recognize what it sees as the “many contributions made by LGBT preservationists and pioneers.” It also aims to highlight the...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 8, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
The numbers crunchers at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found in its latest study that while the traditional media was focused on the nomination of Judge Sonya Sotamayor and North Korea, the new media conversation was on something...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 8, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
I believe that certain words should be off limits (at least to some people). To my taste, “faggot” is one of those words. When used against a man who has sex with men, I believe it’s equivalent to the N-word. In this context, I’ll refer to it...
