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NLGJA 2012 Board Elections

nlgja_logo.jpgDear NLGJA Members, It's NLGJA election time, and we need your vote to decide who the next NLGJA president will be. The two candidates are Steve Pride, an NLGJA board member from the LA Chapter, and Michael Triplett, NLGJA vice president for...

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Posthumous HIV Disclosure Stirs Debate

Erik Rhodes, a gay porn star, died June 14 of a heart attack in New York City. He was 30 years old. A June 20 New York Times article reported that he was HIV positive. In the NYT article by Jacob Bernstein (who recently penned another article on the tragic death of...

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Christmas in June

"Christmas in June: For many LGBT media outlets, Pride is a make-or-break month" is the top story in the June 2012 edition of Press Pass Q: Just as Christmas and Halloween fuel an economic boom, so do the month-long celebrations of Pride, for gay media outlets and...

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Geidner Heading to Buzzfeed

News this afternoon (h/t FishbowlDC)  that Chris Geidner of D.C.'s MetroWeekly has been hired to cover the LGBT/gay marriage beat for Buzzfeed out of their new D.C. bureau. Here's what Buzzfeed's Ben Smith (formerly of Politico) had to say about the hire: Chris...

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This Week in LGBT Front Pages

No one story dominated the front pages of the nation's LGBT papers this week, as news coverage zeroed in on local matters. In Chicago a series of robberies in the gay Boystown section - and the police's handling of the crimes - garnered scrutiny. In Washington, D.C....

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About That Study

A lot of talk in the media today about the study by University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus in Social Science Research that questions the outcomes for children raised in same-sex relationships.  The study was rolled out to the press last Thursday and the first...

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This Week in LGBT Front Pages

Pride coverage continues to dominate the covers of LGBT papers as the first week of Pride month comes to a close, while a macabre story about a gay cannibal murder suspect also garnered headlines. Due to two key decisions in same-sex marriage cases on both coasts...

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