Michelangelo Signorile has joined HuffPost Gay Voices as editor-at-large. Noah Michelson continues as editor. Here's an excerpt from Signorile's inaugural post: This is a pivotal, exciting time for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. From Hollywood and...
Life has a funny way of coming full circle. I occurred to me that I am a journalist not long after the age I first realized I am queer. When I was in middle school, Ohiyesa, the YMCA camp a few hours outside of my native Detroit, offered “themed” camp weeks where...
Every time a story about sexual abuse of children surfaces in the news, I have a tendency to hold my breath wondering if there will be a link to gay men. Since pedophilia and sexual abuse of boys has often been linked to homosexuality and predatory gay men, it rarely...
The Houston Chronicle has retracted its endorsement of Manuel Rodriguez Jr. for another term on the board of the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Here's an excerpt from their editorial explaining why: A last-minute campaign flier for Rodriguez displays...
Economist and conservative commentator Thomas Sowell should know better. He asserts the reason the media is paying so much attention to bullying of LGBT youth is because of the influence of LGBT journalists in the newsroom--all members of NLGJA, apparently--who are...
David Badash in the Huffington Post has taken his earlier work on the future of LGBT news sites (from his blog the New Civil Rights Movement) to a larger audience. It relies on a story at the Nieman Labs on whether it is possible to be too niche when it comes to...
After reporting that Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto came out in New York magazine, ABC World News Now anchor Dan Kloeffler came out on air: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1005617&w=425&h=350&fv=] To Boldly Go… - ABC News, posted with vodpod Here's an excerpt of...
A brouhaha has erupted over a cover story of Taylor Lautner by GQ Australia. Apparently, Lautner had dinner recently with Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black. The interviewer asked Lautner if they made a pass at him. As quoted by The Advocate: "No, definitely not,"...
Dear Colleagues, Tuesday, October 11, 2011, is National Coming Out Day (NCOD). The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association encourages news organizations to take the opportunity presented by this national event to chronicle the LGBT narrative to their...
I didn't know Leroy Aarons, credited with being the founding father of NLGJA. He died shortly after I attended my first convention in New York and I never had the chance to meet him. Yet, in the midst of the discussion over whether NLGJA should accept an invitation to...