Judge Vaughn Walker has confirmed, for the first time with the media, that he is gay and has been in a 10-year relationship with a man. The story brings an end to one of 2010's most interesting media ethics stories relating to the judge who everyone assumed was...
NLGJA's Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. It reflects the association's mission of inclusive coverage...
The first report identifying AIDS was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 5, 1981. That date is now regarded as the beginning of the epidemic. Mainstream media coverage...
The new edition of Press Pass Q has an interesting story on the problems at Here Media (or Regent Media, more on that later) and includes a great scoop: Here filed a lawsuit in February--which has now been withdrawn--against Queerty over the website's intense coverage...
When I speak to student journalists or professional mainstream news rooms about covering the LGBT community, one of the points I like to make is that LGBT people can be sources for stories that are not LGBT-specific. It is what us in the LGBT press call finding the...
Equality Matters, the gay rights focused effort of Media Matters for America, has issued its first big investigative piece which is a look at the depth of Chick-Fil-A's ties to "anti-gay causes." It's a promising effort and shows why outlets like Equality Matters can...
Am I the only one who read the New York Times' piece on the secret life of state Senator Carl Kruger in Sunday's paper who was confused as to why the nearly 3,000 word article not once used the word 'gay?" Instead, the story seems to have done everything it could to...
The other day, I was waiting to see one of my dentists (yes, I'm at the point where I have lots of dental professionals) and I picked up a copy of The Advocate sitting in the magazine rack. While I read the magazine's website, it had been awhile since I'd actually...
It looks like The Advocate is going to have a Washington-based correspondent and editor again. The magazine announced that their senior editor Andrew Harmon is moving to Washington to take over the Washington beat. The news comes after last week's announcement that...
Glee is pretty gay. OK, it is REALLY gay. Vanity Fair is pretty gay. OK, Vanity Fair is REALLY gay. So, when Vanity Fair's resident gay homosexual "fun and faggy" writer Brett Berk drops the f-bomb in a a "Gay Guide to Glee" review on the VF website where he says:...