by Bach Polakowski | Oct 9, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
The Bay Area Reporter has lost a cherished colleague, Marcus Hernandez, who died late Thursday, October 8 at the age of 77. Known around the world as “Mister Marcus” he created a widely-read weekly column about the BDSM/leather community in October of...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 8, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
There is no universal agreement on all the instances when outing is appropriate, but many LGBT people agree that closeted public people (especially politicians) who are anti-LGBT are fair game. So it follows that many LGBT people are less comfortable with outing...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 7, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Kevin Gotkin at Mediaite–who appears to be on the gay journalism “beat”–asks the provocative question, What Makes Good Journalism? And Why is There So Little of It? He argues that gay rights aren’t taken seriously enough by journalism...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 6, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
As if School Safety Czar Kevin Jennings wasn’t already the latest target of conservative attacks, a speech where he praised gay rights pioneer Harry Hay has led the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, the Weekly Standard and Fox News commentators to...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 3, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Love costs, especially if you are in a same-sex couple in America. So says the NYT today in an A1 story about the price of being in a gay relationship. Part of the paper’s Your Money feature, it’s a fascinating look at the costs incurred by same-sex...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 3, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
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 2, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
One of the brightest lights in the LGBT citizen journalist/blogger world is Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend. In addition to her work as an LGBT activist and citizen journalist, she is also actively engage in thinking about the role of citizen journalists and...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 1, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
A day after I raised concerns about the lack of attention the Kevin Jennings story was getting outside of the conservative press, a number of developments are changing the landscape although there is still a surprising lack of attention to this story by the mainstream...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 1, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
CNN premieres its four-hour two-part series “Latino in America” at 9 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 21, and Thursday, October 22. Soledad O’Brien hosts. Here’s a brief description of the series from its website: By 2050, the U.S. Latino...
