The murder of a transgender woman in downtown Oakland in late April has raised several coverage questions since the news broke. On Bay Area news sites that have covered the story, readers have left comments critical of journalists for disclosing the victim's male...
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Today marks the launch of a new feature on NLGJA's main website, a weekly roundup of front pages from the country's LGBT newspapers and magazines. It is part of a larger revamp of www.nlgja.org that is set to debut later this spring. Every Friday the page hosting the...
Latino USA has been heard on public radio since 1992, anchored by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. The weekly radio program reports on the underreported stories of Latinos. I had the pleasure of listening to a recent Latino USA episode that included two...
Mara Keisling writes at Huffington Post about last week's Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC where they spent an hour discussing trans issues. In addition to Keisling, from the National Center for Transgender Equality, the show featured Kate Bornstein and N.Y.C. City...
Slate magazine, in cooperation with the website Longform, does a weekly collection of the best of longform journalism. This weekend, they focused on coming-out stories. The first piece is the buzzed-about essa--My So-Called Ex-Gay Life-- by Gabriel Arana'a...
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More than a year ago I took to task US Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) for refusing to speak to his state's main LGBT newspaper. Bay Windows had been dogging the relatively moderate GOPer for his refusal to speak to it or any other LGBT media outlet since his...
The folks at GLAAD have commissioned a report, conducted by the University of Missouri Center on Religion & the Professions, to examine the kinds of media messages on LGBT issues, especially when it comes to religious voices. The report finds that when religious...
By Michael Tune More than 350 people helped us celebrate NLGJA’s inaugural year at UNITY with this year’s Headlines and Headliners. Raising more than $100,000 for NLGJA, we enjoyed a phenomenal event, and couldn’t be more thankful to the supporters, sponsors and...