by Bach Polakowski | Dec 18, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
There has been plenty of media coverage on the death of LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner, who for a time was known as Christine Daniels. The most recent example is “Requiem for a Transsexual Sportswriter” by Jacob Bernstein, a senior reporter for The...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 14, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
A major controversy has erupted in parts of the transgender–and general LGBT– community over a column written by Ronald Gold that was published and then yanked down by Bil Browning at Bilerico Project after Gold’s comments on gender fluidity set-off...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 14, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
The Washington Post featured two stories this weekend on gay student groups at DC’s two most prominent Catholic universities–Georgetown and Catholic University of America. When most people think of Catholic universities in DC, they think of the Jesuit-run...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 14, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was interviewed for the December 11 edition of NPR’s On the Media. Most of the interview focuses on an article titled “Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World” that he wrote for Outside. The deck...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 11, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
Predictably some in the mainstream media can’t let a gay story run without quoting some antigay person – no matter if what that person has to say is irrelevant to the story or just downright false. Case in point: The Sacramento Bee and its story in...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 10, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Conde Nast’s Details isn’t officially a gay magazine, but it doesn’t shy away from its gay readership. The magazine, however, has a history of sometimes offending its gay readers. The “Gay or Asian?” controversy in 2004 was the most...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 7, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
I enjoyed Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz’s profile of New York magazine’s editor Adam Moss, but was caught off guard by this paragraph: There was no chance he would pass up the opportunity. Growing up on Long Island and reading his...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 7, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Following up on the great post by Ina Fried on the death of sportswriter Christine Daniels/Mike Penner, some more links worth checking out – National Public Radio’s On the Media did a lengthy segment with LA Times sports editor Mike James. James was a...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 7, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Next Magazine is the reigning (and only) gay nightlife weekly guide to New York City. Mostly a mix of party listings, theater and dining recommendations with a dose of escort advertising, to its credit the publication often includes substantive feature articles. The...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 3, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Rex Wockner continues his interesting one-on-one interviews with famous citizen journalists/bloggers by chatting up Joe Jervis, the man behind JoeMyGod. He interviewed Towleroad’s Andy Towle in November. Joe discusses how he came up with the name of his blog,...
