by Bach Polakowski | Aug 31, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
A weekend of reading and thinking about the Washington Post’s story on Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage has made me rethink–or enhance, depending on your take–my main criticism of the story from a journalistic perspective. I...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 28, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
At last year’s NLGJA conference, I moderated a panel that included former Log Cabin Republican president Patrick Sammon where we discussed the “Gay Republicans in the Mist” story. It’s the kind of reporting that treats gay Republicans as odd...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 27, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
The August issue of Press Pass Q, a monthly newsletter about LGBT media issues, features two stories about the upcoming NLGJA Convention in Montreal set to take place September 10 – 13. Reporter Chuck Colbert, who will be moderating a panel during the LGBT...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 27, 2009 | NLGJA Updates |
NLGJA has selected eight undergraduate and graduate journalism students to participate in a weeklong, intensive journalism education program in Montreal, Canada, this September. NLGJA’s Student Project is held in conjunction with the 2009 National Convention...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 25, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
I have a friend who always posts the most interesting stuff on his Facebook page. Recently, he highlighted a National Public Radio segment on “Tell Me More” where a gay man set out some rules for his female friends because he was feeling like an accessory....
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 24, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
It’s inevitable, I guess, that a discussion of gay and lesbian people will turn into a discussion of sex, especially in the context of religion. So when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved gay and lesbian people who are in committed relationships...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 24, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
As predicted, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became the largest denomination in the U.S. to allow non-celibate gays and lesbians in committed relationships to be ministers, while also making way for the blessing of same-sex relationships. What makes the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 21, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The local LGBT news magazine Metro Weekly based in Washington, DC, recently interviewed Kerry Eleveld, the Washington, DC, correspondent for the national LGBT news magazine The Advocate. As the article by Sean Bugg points out, Eleveld is arguably the face of the LGBT...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 20, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyylxu07bYg] Local Bay Area media are being criticized for covering a press conference by homophobe Randy Thomasson, founder of the antigay lobbying group Campaign for California Families, at which he denounced the late gay...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 20, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Since it seems rude to accuse others of being pedantic while being pedantic myself, I will just acknowledge that the good people at the Wall Street Journal have a (pedantic) point about what a “bisexual couple” would look like–both in person and in a...