by Bach Polakowski | Dec 31, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The Bilerico Project folks have put together their Top 10 list of LGBT stories of 2009. And they are: 1. Inclusive Hate Crimes Legislation Passes 2. The Marriage Map Expands from Two to Six 3. LGBT Activists Win Washington and Kalamazoo, but Lose in Maine 4. The...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 29, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
While there is still no news on whether the trial challenging California’s Proposition 8 will be televised, the court has issued guidance for press wanting to cover the trial, including news that Tweets from inside the courtroom will be permitted. Karen Ocamb at...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 28, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
According to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a political group that supports LGBT candidates, there are currently at least 445 openly LGBT people holding elected office in the United States, up from 257 eight years ago. That stat is from an article in The New York...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 23, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Washington, D.C. is a city full of conspiracy theories. The newest one, ferreted out by Amanda Hess at the Washington City Paper, is that the media coverage of the same-sex marriage debate in D.C. is biased because undercover gay journalists are slanting the...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Could the Tiger Woods scandal be replaced on the 24-hour news shows by a high-profile trial over same-sex marriage? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit–which covers courts in California and other states in the west–opened the door to television coverage of...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Capping an already bad year for the LGBT press is news that much of the staff of the Chicago Free Press has left the paper after not getting paid. According to the Chicago Tribune, the exodus marks the end of months of uncertainty at the CFP, which was started ten...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Blogger David Badash at the New Civil Rights Movement is going after CNN for using the term “admit” in describing the way international rugby star Gareth Thomas announced that he was gay. Here’s how CNN said it, in a story headlined “Thomas...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Longtime NLGJA member and blogger Steve Rothaus reports that a new LGBT newspaper will launch in January 2010 titled South Florida Gay News (SFGN). SFGN’s publisher, Norm Kent, is the former owner of Express Gay News. He sold it to Window Media, which renamed it...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 21, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
It’s a good thing at Martha Stewart Weddings with news that Gay as You blogger Jeremy Hooper and his husband Andrew Shulman break the barrier by having their June wedding featured in Martha’s wedding magazine. Mazel tov to Hooper and Shulman, as well...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 19, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Frequent NLGJA convention speaker Michael Luongo has begun a six-week book tour of the Middle East promoting his book Gay Travels in the Middle East. Here’s his first report, from Huffintgton Post, on his visit to the Beirut Book Fair. Soon others came to...