I will admit that I wouldn't recognize an Adam Lambert song if he was singing in my living room, but he's hard to ignore on the Internet since everyone seems to be talking about him. The current attention is focused on his spat with Out magazine editor Aaron Hicklin...
As we've discovered over and over again at this blog, telling the story of transgender people seems to be especially tricky for reasons that are both complicated and fairly simple. So it's worth pointing to examples when the story of transgender people is done well....
The editorial staff of the former Washington Blade have indeed achieved the launch of DC Agenda, the capital's newest LGBT newspaper. Here's an excerpt from the inaugural letter from the editor by Kevin Naff: Don’t judge us too harshly — the edition of DC Agenda...
Bay Area Reporter publisher Thomas E. Horn (on the right in photo) was in the news this week for more than his comments about the demise of Window Media. He also garnered headlines for being named Honorary Consul for Monaco in San Francisco. Horn met with Prince...
Publishers of the country's remaining LGBT weekly newspapers have all issued comments this week highly critical of the management decisions made by those leading Window Media, which filed for bankruptcy over the weekend and shuttered its papers in D.C., Atlanta and...
Advocate.com reports that the Washington Blade will relaunch this Friday, Nov. 20, under a new name: DC Agenda. They quote former Blade editor Kevin Naff: We're launching a modest print publication on Friday and the plan is to be on a full-scale printing press in two...
It appears that if you want unfiltered coverage of the all-stars of the anti-same-sex marriage movement, you only need to turn to the Washington Post's Style section. Just three months after the infamous profile of Brian Brown that resulted in a scolding by WaPo...
It's not often that the mainstream media acknowledges the LGBT media, so it's certainly worth noting when that acknowledgment is filled with praise. The Washington Post published today an editorial lamenting the demise of the Washington Blade: The Blade's importance...
There's a belief that people say the nicest things about others during the eulogies at funerals. If only we said those things when people were alive, the thought goes, we'd be in a better place. So it goes as the "eulogies" begin to roll in over the demise of Window...
A great report from the Washington City Paper's Amanda Hess from inside the Blade's National Press Club building offices as staff members pack up after news that the Blade has been shut down. Reporters have been calling the office all morning in search of a comment,...