by Bach Polakowski | Mar 4, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The headline of the recent cover of celebrity entertainment magazine Life & Style asks “Why Is Angelina Turning Shiloh into a Boy?” The article claims that actress Angelina Jolie is refusing to let her 3-year-old daughter Shiloh wear dresses. Among the...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 4, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
We in the journalism world do tend to take ourselves quite seriously sometimes, so it’s no surprise that we’re sometimes a target for satire. This latest video from The Onion is a funny example. Although it isn’t LGBT specific, it does lampoon the...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 2, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Assuming a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court isn’t successful, the District of Columbia will become the sixth “state” to allow same-sex marriage on Wednesday. One of the most talked-about angles is that D.C. is the first place in the country...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 2, 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 1, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
For the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts, NPR’s Weekened Edition Saturday did a story about the history of the Boy Scouts and interviewed famous scouts, including Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder. What went unmentioned in the story, and two other stories,...