by Bach Polakowski | Mar 17, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A must-read and must-watch coverage of SXSWI’s “Engaging the Queer Community” panel by Queerty’s Daniel Villarreal. The panel included Fausto Fernos from the Feast Of Fun, Bil Browning from The Bilerico Project, After Ellen’s editor Trish...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 17, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
It would appear so, according to this tweet: @DCAgenda: Cast your vote now: Should we continue as DC Agenda or resume using Washington Blade? Please use hashtag #namevote The folks at DC Agenda have consistently said they intend to keep their new name, but now that...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 16, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Did LGBT bloggers–and the mainstream press–purposely refuse to report on the religious and ethnic backgrounds of the cousins accused of shooting gay men in San Francisco with a BB gun because the cousins had Muslim-sounding last names? That’s the...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 15, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Buried in Amidst Charles Kaiser’s discussion of the New York Times event with David Boies and Theodore Olson is an interesting observation about how things have changed at the NYT for LGBT journalists. Kaiser, a former NYT reporter and founding member of...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 15, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A really nice interview, and very probing questions, with PR pro Cathy Renna at Karen Ocamb’s LGBT POV. They talk about the media coverage–and media handling– leading up to the DC marriage launch. Karen raises some great questions and Cathy talks...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 13, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A quick follow-up to Oriol’s previous blog post about Andrew Alexander’s comments regarding the gay kiss photos accompanying the same-sex marriage stories. Alexander says that since his first posting, there has been a “counterattack” from...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 13, 2010 | NLGJA Updates |
NLGJA’s Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. It reflects the association’s mission of...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 12, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Cuba is once again paying for sexual reassignment surgeries. The government began a program to fund the operations in 1988, but in response to complaints the program was suspended—until now. The new program is a direct result of the advocacy of Mariela Castro. She...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 10, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The Washington Post ran a front page story on March 4 about D.C. issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This photo of a gay couple kissing accompanied that article. The photo caption read: Happy couples express their enthusiasm as the District begins taking...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 8, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Leroy Aarons, the late founder of NLGJA, was a man of many talents. He fused his interest in the theater with his expertise as a news man by co-authoring the play “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers” with Geoffrey Cowan, who most recently was...