by Bach Polakowski | Oct 31, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
A late Friday post and tweet at Queerty about the demise of the Advocate as a stand-alone magazine and major budget slashes at Regent Publishing has been disputed by Stephen Macias at Regent, according to a letter posted Saturday afternoon by Advocate editor Jon...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 31, 2009 | NLGJA Updates |
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...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 30, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Okay, I totally stole that from Bravo’s Andy Cohen, but he’s a generous guy so he probably won’t mind. 1. Congratulations to Bil Browning (The Bilerico Project), Joe Jervis (Joe.My.God.), Pam Spaulding (Pam’s House Blend) and Andy Towle...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 27, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
The National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez handwrings over Bill “too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids” Donahue’s latest email blast about the use of the phrase “opposite-sex marriage” by the New...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 26, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
Stephen Jarchow, the 58-year-old chairman of Here Media Inc., owner of Gay.com, The Advocate and Out magazines, recently gave an interview to The Dallas Morning News in which he talks about the travails facing not only his company but the news media in general. One...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 26, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
President Obama is set to sign into law the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act this Wednesday at 4:45 p.m in a White House event. The bill represents the first major piece of federal legislation dealing with the LGBT community ever signed...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 26, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
When mobster turned informant Robert Mormando appeared in a Brooklyn court on October 19 for a hearing on his sentence for a botched hit, the last thing anyone expected to hear was the defendant out himself as a gay man. Mormando already had pleaded guilty for taking...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 25, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
If LGBT rights are the most important civil rights battle of the moment, why are there so few openly LGBT voices on the editorial pages of the nation’s largest newspapers? That’s one of the many fascinating questions Dan Savage asks Frank Rich in an...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 21, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Everyone has a right to an opinion. And Bill Donohue–of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights–has a lot of them. He’s in a little hot water over a column at On Faith, the joint Newsweek/Washington Post religion portal, over a recent...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 21, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Last week, we gave a shout-out to the Washington Blade’s 40th Anniversary, and featured their longtime reporter, Lou Chibbaro Jr. The Washington Post is also taking notice of Chibbaro with a great Style section cover story on the LGBT news veteran. In a...