The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a decision by a trial judge to release the supposedly private recordings of the Prop 8 trial that were put under seal. Here's what the court said in terms of press freedom in accessing court documents and...
The Jewish Press, a weekly publication focused on the Orthodox Jewish community, has a stinging editorial defending its decision to feature a story about suicide among "religious" Jewish gays. The original story, by Chaim Levin, touched off a great deal of criticism...
I've re-read Ian Parker's skeptical take on the death of Tyler Clementi in the New Yorker a number of times because, quite frankly, I couldn't quite figure out how he reached the conclusions he did. I think I get it, but it was hard to piece together. The most...
The most recent Press Pass Q has an excellent article about the use of "gay marriage" vs. "same-sex marriage" in LGBT publications. The article also explores whether "marriage equality" is only an activist term. The NLGJA stylebook supplement suggests "marriage for...
If you work for a major (or minor) traditional media outlet, getting credentials to attend events can be a hassle, but in my time as an editor I've never had credentials requests rejected for someone working for me (even freelancers). But what if you own your own...
If you are looking for some old-fashioned muckraking journalism for your weekend, you won't have to look much further than the South Florida Gay News investigation of park arrests in Palm Beach. Looking at hundreds of police reports, depositions of the police, and...
We've waited too long to take a look at the impact of Bil Browning's amazing six weeks of attention after posting on Bilerico Project about his opposition to donating to the Salvation Army. The post, which has been an annual event, resulted in a huge response with...
Sometimes, you listen to a story on the radio and you keep thinking, "I just know they are about to have someone defend the LGBT community from these charges." But, unfortunately, you often wait and wait and wait. The most recent example was in a story on National...
Long story short. The Weekly Standard received an ad--IOW, someone wanted the Weekly Standard's email list and the cachet that comes with the Weekly Standard name and endorsement--from a far-right group advancing an anti-gay agenda. Not earthshattering since Weekly...
In his 1987 book Freedom Under Siege, current Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Representative Ron Paul (D-Texas) wrote this about people with AIDS: "The individual suffering from AIDS is certainly a victim, frequently a victim of his own lifestyle, but this...