By Sharif Durhams Board Member, NLGJA Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel I attended my first National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association at the beginning of my reporting career, a time when I whispered to a newsroom colleague to ask whether he was gay and...
In response to this post, National Public Radio's Ombudsman Alicia Shepard has written her own thoughts about NPR's identification of Judge Vaughn Walker as "gay and open." She also raises some questions of how NPR identifies the sexual orientation of people in...
This year, NLGJA is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the organization's founding. With that milestone, I'm going to try to do some blogs--and encourage my co-bloggers--to focus on how things have changed for LGBT journalists and journalism in the last 20 years. ...
So you need a little graphics for your page. You are the Washington Times and the columnist is anti-gay activist Robert Knight of the Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute. So of course you used a graphic that includes the words "gay," "buggery,"...
A pat on the back to Joe Jervis at JoeMyGod for acknowledging that his tweets about Judge Walker declining to stay the order lacked the whole story, specifically that the stay would still be in effect until Aug. 18 and therefore no marriages until then, at the...
Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who deployed an inflatable emergency chute after landing at JFK Airport and then fled the scene, pled not guilty to charges of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass. The details of Slater's story...
In a follow-up on the controversy: - my story at Mediaite. - a story by the Associated Press' Lisa Leff and another by Peter Hecht at the Sacramento Bee. - a hilarious video story by Stephen Colbert.
Finishing up our coverage of how the Prop 8 was played, a look at some of this week's LGBT print media. Bay Area Reporter Washington Blade Philadelphia Gay News Dallas Voice Bay Windows Gay Lesbian Times (San Diego)
As inevitable as the sun rising in the morning, the issue of Judge Vaughn Walker's sexual orientation is again front-and-center after the ruling on Proposition 8 in California. Sitting in my car listening to NPR on Wednesday, I heard correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates...
For people who still like getting their fingers dirty and enjoy the design and significance of a newspaper's front page, here are some front pages showing how newspapers across the country covered the Proposition 8 decision. San Francisco Chronicle Los Angeles Times...