In an intriguing Bloggingheads video interview, Marc Ambinder spent a few minutes talking about the incestuous relationship of Washington powerbrokers and the role the "gay mafia" plays in helping gay journalists like Ambinder. I'm going to refer to "gay" because...
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As we enter LGBT pride month, journalists will be faced with the inevitable question of how to bring something new to an event that happens--in many places--every year. Reporters in Salt Lake City got a lot of help this year when 300 members of the Church of Jesus...
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Marriage equality and President Barack Obama again dominated the front pages of the nation's LGBT media this week. The Obama campaign's roll out of its get-out-the-vote efforts targeted at LGBT people and the NAACP following the president's lead by endorsing same-sex...
There's been a lot of buzz about Gabriel Arana's piece about his experience in reparative therapy, that was published in the American Prospect. But the Columbia Journalism Review has done a great analysis of the impact of Arana's piece in Curtis Brainerd's...
Introduction Federal laws do not prohibit discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation in housing or employment. Without a federal law, a state or local law would therefore provide the only assurance or protection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
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I remember an NLGJA conference session about the coverage of crime. A number of journalists and PR people were talking about how we cover crime-especially crimes against LGBT people--and the comment was made about how important it was for the families of crime...
President Barack Obama's speaking in favor for same-sex marriage continued to reverberate this week, with many LGBT newspapers covering the impact his stance has had on celebrities and fellow lawmakers to black ministers and anti-gay groups. Here is a sampling of...