For the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts, NPR's Weekened Edition Saturday did a story about the history of the Boy Scouts and interviewed famous scouts, including Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder. What went unmentioned in the story, and two other stories, was the Boy...
Thanks to Karen Ocamb's LGBT POV website, we learn that Judge Walker has withdrawn the Perry case from consideration for the Ninth Circuit's pilot project for television, which means there will be no televising of the closing arguments. There was some speculation by...
A statement this morning from Kevin Naff and Lynne Brown about their purchase of the Washington Blade assets in the Window Media firesale. Brown and Naff, along with Brian Pitts, are former top brass at the Washington Blade and now own, and run, the DC Agenda. Brown...
News of the sale of Window Media assets means the never-ending saga in Atlanta's LGBT media world is likely to continue. Patrick Saunders at Atlanta's Creative Loafing points out that the new owners of the Southern Voice assets are considering rebranding their...
According to ProjectQAtlanta, former employees of Southern Voice were outbid in their attempt to buy back the assets of the bankrupt Window Media and the name and assets are now owned by rivals Gaydar Publishing. Former employees of the Washington Blade were...
Progressive media watchdog Media Matters is getting a lot of attention for their efforts today to dispel "myths" related to the coverage of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Their efforts are endorsed by "a coalition of leading organizations and activists joined together to...
A nice write-up this weekend by Miami Herald ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos defending the Herald's perceived pro-LGBT bias on the editorial page. To Schumacher-Matos, the perception is true and that it reflects the paper's readership. I agree with Editorial Page...
The week-long Johnny Weir show--otherwise known as the Men's Figure Skating at the Olympics--has come to a close and the press is still wondering, as Josie Cotton once put it, "Johnny are you Queer?" Watching the twitter and Facebook frenzy over Weir's performance in...
That's the intriguing question being asked at a Los Angeles Press Club event next week. If you are in LA, it sounds like a great panel. It includes Andrew Harmon, senior editor for The Advocate, advocate.com; Ted Johnson, managing editor of Variety and blogger at...
As more and more people are working in non-traditional settings and now have income as a freelancer, tax season is especially . . . taxing (who can avoid that trite pun?). At the NLGJA conference in Miami, I moderated a panel on tax and business advice for freelancers...