"Should We Scrap the Word 'Transgender'?" is the title of a post by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss at the LGBT blog The Bilerico Project. Dr. Weiss is an associate professor of law at Ramapo College in New Jersey and a consultant on transgender workplace diversity. Her entry...
There have been numerous stories and obituaries of Deborah Howell, the former editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, head of the Newhouse chain's Washington bureau, and ombudsman of the Washington Post. Long an advocate for greater diversity in the newsroom--especially...
The Bilerico Project folks have put together their Top 10 list of LGBT stories of 2009. And they are: 1. Inclusive Hate Crimes Legislation Passes 2. The Marriage Map Expands from Two to Six 3. LGBT Activists Win Washington and Kalamazoo, but Lose in Maine 4. The...
While there is still no news on whether the trial challenging California's Proposition 8 will be televised, the court has issued guidance for press wanting to cover the trial, including news that Tweets from inside the courtroom will be permitted. Karen Ocamb at LGBT...
According to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a political group that supports LGBT candidates, there are currently at least 445 openly LGBT people holding elected office in the United States, up from 257 eight years ago. That stat is from an article in The New York...
Washington, D.C. is a city full of conspiracy theories. The newest one, ferreted out by Amanda Hess at the Washington City Paper, is that the media coverage of the same-sex marriage debate in D.C. is biased because undercover gay journalists are slanting the...
Could the Tiger Woods scandal be replaced on the 24-hour news shows by a high-profile trial over same-sex marriage? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit–which covers courts in California and other states in the west–opened the door to television coverage of...
Capping an already bad year for the LGBT press is news that much of the staff of the Chicago Free Press has left the paper after not getting paid. According to the Chicago Tribune, the exodus marks the end of months of uncertainty at the CFP, which was started ten...
Blogger David Badash at the New Civil Rights Movement is going after CNN for using the term "admit" in describing the way international rugby star Gareth Thomas announced that he was gay. Here's how CNN said it, in a story headlined "Thomas relief after admitting he...
Longtime NLGJA member and blogger Steve Rothaus reports that a new LGBT newspaper will launch in January 2010 titled South Florida Gay News (SFGN). SFGN's publisher, Norm Kent, is the former owner of Express Gay News. He sold it to Window Media, which renamed it South...