It's a good thing at Martha Stewart Weddings with news that Gay as You blogger Jeremy Hooper and his husband Andrew Shulman break the barrier by having their June wedding featured in Martha's wedding magazine. Mazel tov to Hooper and Shulman, as well congratulations...
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Gay Travel Writing in the Middle East
Frequent NLGJA convention speaker Michael Luongo has begun a six-week book tour of the Middle East promoting his book Gay Travels in the Middle East. Here's his first report, from Huffintgton Post, on his visit to the Beirut Book Fair. Soon others came to congratulate...
Requiem for a Transsexual Sportswriter
There has been plenty of media coverage on the death of LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner, who for a time was known as Christine Daniels. The most recent example is "Requiem for a Transsexual Sportswriter" by Jacob Bernstein, a senior reporter for The Daily Beast. It...
Are there Journalism Lessons from Bilerico’s Blow-Up?
A major controversy has erupted in parts of the transgender--and general LGBT-- community over a column written by Ronald Gold that was published and then yanked down by Bil Browning at Bilerico Project after Gold's comments on gender fluidity set-off a firestorm of...
Gay Groups on Catholic Campuses
The Washington Post featured two stories this weekend on gay student groups at DC's two most prominent Catholic universities--Georgetown and Catholic University of America. When most people think of Catholic universities in DC, they think of the Jesuit-run...
OTM Interviews Kristof
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was interviewed for the December 11 edition of NPR's On the Media. Most of the interview focuses on an article titled "Nicholas Kristof's Advice for Saving the World" that he wrote for Outside. The deck sums up the article...
Sac Bee allows antigay claims to go unchallenged
Predictably some in the mainstream media can't let a gay story run without quoting some antigay person - no matter if what that person has to say is irrelevant to the story or just downright false. Case in point: The Sacramento Bee and its story in today's paper about...
Details: “The Rise of the Douchefag”
Conde Nast's Details isn't officially a gay magazine, but it doesn't shy away from its gay readership. The magazine, however, has a history of sometimes offending its gay readers. The "Gay or Asian?" controversy in 2004 was the most egregious example, until now...
“Boyfriend of 25 Years”
I enjoyed Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz's profile of New York magazine's editor Adam Moss, but was caught off guard by this paragraph: There was no chance he would pass up the opportunity. Growing up on Long Island and reading his parents' subscription to...
More Coverage of Death of Christine Daniels/Mike Penner
Following up on the great post by Ina Fried on the death of sportswriter Christine Daniels/Mike Penner, some more links worth checking out - National Public Radio's On the Media did a lengthy segment with LA Times sports editor Mike James. James was a longtime friend...