A quick note about the continuing saga of Chaplains and DADT, an issue we've covered extensively. At the conservative media criticism blog GetReligion, Terry Mattingly used one of our blog posts to suggest that NLGJA believed there was no religious liberty conflict in...
A little late to the game, but we still wanted to recognize the significance of Ladies' Home Journal taking on gay bullying. LHJ is one of the Seven Sisters of "homemaker" magazines geared directly towards women in "real America," as a certain GOP vice presidential...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has put out a preview of its latest list of anti-gay "hate" groups, causing some furor over whether showing up on that list means that the media shouldn't feature those groups in interviews. Dan Savage set off the discussion on CNN....
TMZ reported on November 16 that Willow Palin, one of Sarah Palin's daughters (the one not on "Dancing With the Stars" on ABC), used the word "faggot" on Facebook against a critic of her family's reality show titled "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on TLC, which premiered on...
Everyone has read the profile of an actor or artist where they describe the person's current career than talk about the person's life. There's usually talk of a husband or wife, how the happy heterosexual couple met, and how they lived (un)happily ever after. That...
Lots of chatter about Nightline's recent episode on Journey Into Manhood, an "ex-gay" program. Nightline was permitted to film a weekend and interview at least one participant. [vodpod...
A nice interview with the Washington Post's (and MSNBC's) Jonathan Capehart by Sean Bugg at MetroWeekly. Capehart is one of the most prominent LGBT editorial writers and pundits and Bugg does a nice job of asking him some interesting--and, at times, hard--questions....
Last week, we wrote about how to cover the "chaplains fear ending DADT" stories. The Associate Press has offered a story which is, sadly, an example of how not to do it. The AP starts with a six-week old letter from retired chaplains (and the Alliance Defense Fund)...
Three media entities--including a gay-run blog and the parent company of hyperlocal TBD.com--have filed a motion to intervenee to challenge a gag order imposed in the civil trial of three gay men in DC who are accused in the wrongful death of a heterosexual man found...
One of the important roles of NLGJA is to advocate for fair and objective coverage of LGBT issues. A crucial component of that work is our Rapid Response Task Force that looks at questionable coverage and advocates--journalists to journalists--for change. Recently,...