By Benjamin Ryan (Editor-at-Large, POZ) Soy sauce has become the latest supermarket item to contain the answer to HIV, according to a savory smorgasbord of reporting in the popular press. But don’t go downing bottles of the brine just yet, because there’s a small...
By Bobby Calvan (Reporter, The Heartland Project) LINCOLN, Neb. – The assignment was straightforward: Produce a story about the growing diversity in the Cornhusker State’s capital city. Certainly, we could have gone straight to the U.S. Census Bureau’s website and...
By Benjamin Ryan (Editor-at-Large, POZ) A study showing that a component of marijuana modulates the disease progression of the simian version of HIV in the guts of monkeys has led to a rash of hyperbolic and highly inaccurate reporting of the research in the popular...
By Sharif Durhams (Treasurer, NLGJA) Missouri defensive end Michael Sam's announcement Sunday that he's gay will make him the first openly gay participant in the NFL draft, a development that's likely to be the topic of news and sports media discussions Sunday. We...
By Bil Browning (Founder and Publisher, The Bilerico Project) A waiter at a Carrabba's Grill in Overland Park, Kansas, was stiffed on his tip by anti-gay Christians who complimented his service but also called him a "fag." The shining examples of brotherly love left a...
By Mark Segal (Publisher, Philadelphia Gay News) What surprised me most at the National Lesbian Gay Journalists Association annual convention in Boston last week was the concern for print media. Granted, print media is having a hard time at present; it doesn’t know...
By James Miller (Media Critic, WFPL) In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, most people had no idea how AIDS was transmitted. Even as late as 1999, many people believed that they could get AIDS from public toilets or sharing drinking glasses with an HIV-positive...
This was a banner week for the LGBTQ community, with the Supreme Court’s rulings on Proposition 8 (no standing for an appeal, sent back to the lower court, which means the lower-court decision overturning Prop. 8 holds) and the Defense of Marriage Act (section 3,...
By Michael Tune (NLGJA executive director) I am all over the place in my passions. I can get so excited about golf, then cars, then religion, then “The Great Gatsby.” My husband and I joke about my “flavor of the month,” a trend that actually runs in some of my...
By Matthew E. Berger (NLGJA board member and vice president of Dezenhall Resources, a crisis communications firm in Washington, D.C.) It’s been a pretty big week so far for LGBT news, with the much anticipated two days of hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court on...