by Bach Polakowski | Aug 31, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
As you may have heard, the Omaha World-Herald has come under fire for not taking advertising for same-sex weddings and ceremonies. The paper announced this morning that it was changing its policies to take paid ads for legal weddings, but not for any other kind of...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 27, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The current issue of Press Pass Q (“A Newsletter and Trade Publication for the LGBT Media Professional”) spotlights the 2010 NLGJA convention and LGBT media summit in San Francisco. Here’s an excerpt: Of interest to those in LGBT media, the annual...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 26, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
By now, everyone has likely seen the Marc Ambinder piece on former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman coming out. As interesting as that story is, there are some other interesting media angles worth keeping on-top of: – Mehlman’s interview...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 24, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Mason Wyler, a gay porn star, recently revealed on his blog that he is HIV positive. That fact alone is enough to elicit my sympathy, but it’s the circumstances of his disclosure that disturb me the most. For the uninitiated (and I have to confess, I was until I...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 19, 2010 | NLGJA Updates |
By Sharif Durhams Board Member, NLGJA Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel I attended my first National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association at the beginning of my reporting career, a time when I whispered to a newsroom colleague to ask whether he was gay and...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 17, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
In response to this post, National Public Radio’s Ombudsman Alicia Shepard has written her own thoughts about NPR’s identification of Judge Vaughn Walker as “gay and open.” She also raises some questions of how NPR identifies the sexual...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 15, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
This year, NLGJA is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the organization’s founding. With that milestone, I’m going to try to do some blogs–and encourage my co-bloggers–to focus on how things have changed for LGBT journalists and journalism in...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 13, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
So you need a little graphics for your page. You are the Washington Times and the columnist is anti-gay activist Robert Knight of the Concerned Women for America’s Culture and Family Institute. So of course you used a graphic that includes the words...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 12, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A pat on the back to Joe Jervis at JoeMyGod for acknowledging that his tweets about Judge Walker declining to stay the order lacked the whole story, specifically that the stay would still be in effect until Aug. 18 and therefore no marriages until then, at the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 10, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who deployed an inflatable emergency chute after landing at JFK Airport and then fled the scene, pled not guilty to charges of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass. The details of Slater’s...