Why Covering Churches Isn’t Like Covering Congress
As the long summer winds down, things are heating up in Lake Wobegon country as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is poised to vote during its Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis on allowing non-celibate LGBT people to be ministers. If approved, the ELCA...UPDATED: LGBT at WSJ
It looks James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal could use a handy copy of our Stylebook Supplement given his apparent confusion over what LGBT means in the same-sex marriage debate. Here’s his take on the Obama press statement regarding the new brief filed in...“No Homo” in Hip Hop
The use of the phrase “no homo” in hip-hop music was analyzed recently in “Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay?” by Jonah Weiner, a pop critic for Slate.com. The phrase has been around since the 1990s and is invoked whenever a person wants...Kissing Up
The challenge of being a wire-service reporter is sometimes you are stuck trying to make a news story out of little news. This appears to be the problem AP’s Jennifer Dobner had in covering the nationwide “kiss-ins” that largely failed and tying it...Wedding Page Blues
I’ll admit that I’m one of those people who loves reading the Weddings/Celebration section of the New York Times, and now the Washington Post. It’s not that I’m a hopeless romantic, but I love the sociology and anthropology of whose weddings...LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame: Jim Kepner
Established in 2005 as part of NLGJA’s 15th anniversary celebration, the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame was launched to honor LGBT journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and whatever...The Ethics of Heckling Bill
When you are Bill Clinton and you decide to speak to a crowd of progressive bloggers, you should be prepared for some fireworks. And fireworks there were, when Clinton said gay blogger Lane Hudson would feel comfortable as a member of the mobs at the health care town meetings after Hudson interrupted Clinton with questions about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.