by Bach Polakowski | Nov 28, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A little late to the game, but we still wanted to recognize the significance of Ladies’ Home Journal taking on gay bullying. LHJ is one of the Seven Sisters of “homemaker” magazines geared directly towards women in “real America,” as a...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 24, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett, Uncategorized |
The Southern Poverty Law Center has put out a preview of its latest list of anti-gay “hate” groups, causing some furor over whether showing up on that list means that the media shouldn’t feature those groups in interviews. Dan Savage set off the...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 19, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
TMZ reported on November 16 that Willow Palin, one of Sarah Palin’s daughters (the one not on “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC), used the word “faggot” on Facebook against a critic of her family’s reality show titled “Sarah...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 14, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Everyone has read the profile of an actor or artist where they describe the person’s current career than talk about the person’s life. There’s usually talk of a husband or wife, how the happy heterosexual couple met, and how they lived (un)happily...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 10, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Lots of chatter about Nightline’s recent episode on Journey Into Manhood, an “ex-gay” program. Nightline was permitted to film a weekend and interview at least one participant. [vodpod...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 4, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A nice interview with the Washington Post’s (and MSNBC’s) Jonathan Capehart by Sean Bugg at MetroWeekly. Capehart is one of the most prominent LGBT editorial writers and pundits and Bugg does a nice job of asking him some interesting–and, at times,...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 2, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Last week, we wrote about how to cover the “chaplains fear ending DADT” stories. The Associate Press has offered a story which is, sadly, an example of how not to do it. The AP starts with a six-week old letter from retired chaplains (and the Alliance...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 2, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Three media entities–including a gay-run blog and the parent company of hyperlocal TBD.com–have filed a motion to intervenee to challenge a gag order imposed in the civil trial of three gay men in DC who are accused in the wrongful death of a heterosexual...