by Bach Polakowski | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Throughout Palm Springs and the greater Coachella Valley in southern California a new LGBT publication hit the streets today (Thursday, April 5). The fact that the new monthly magazine Desert Outlook exists at all in today’s downsizing print media environment is...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Los Angeles’ LGBT community has a long history with being targeted by undercover police stings and raids of gay bars. One such incident the night of New Year’s 1967 at the Black Cat Tavern sparked a riot, demonstrations, a legal case and gave birth to...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 4, 2012 | Matthew S. Bajko |
Today the American Society of News Editors released its annual report on the makeup of the country’s newsrooms as it closed out its three-day confab in Washington, D.C. While the group found a “very slim increase” in newsroom employees last year, for...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 3, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
Sean Bugg of MetroWeekly has delved again into the use of LGBT as an inclusive shortand for the entire LGBT community. In a posting on Bilerico Project, Bugg asks whether LGBT is sometimes being misused and overinclusive, failing to recognize that one of those four...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 1, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
Sundays are great for breaking the habit of quickly reading the news and settling in for something longer, less direct. Today, there are two great longform pieces of journalism about the lives of gay men worth checking out. First is the New York Times piece on the...