The pile-on of the management of the Advocate continues with a blistering--and self-congratulatory--piece in the Huffington Post by the Advocate's former editor-in-chief Judy Wieder. Feeding off the rumor--unchallenged by Regent Media--that the Advocate will no...
Earlier this week, I mentioned the pervasiveness of journalists reporting threats to opponents of same-sex marriage without offering any evidence. Instead of playing into the meme, I called for more actual reporting with specific examples. To further illustrate how...
At the same time that Washington Post reporters are allegedly calling each other "cocksucker" and brawling in the newsroom, a former minor league hockey player and columnist for USA Today is calling for the end of homophobic taunts. It's not clear what he thinks about...
People won't sign petitions against same-sex marriage or civil unions because they fear harassment. Opponents of same-sex marriage and civil unions say they fear for their safety. The one problem: the New York Times and the LA Times fail to provide any evidence of...
A late Friday post and tweet at Queerty about the demise of the Advocate as a stand-alone magazine and major budget slashes at Regent Publishing has been disputed by Stephen Macias at Regent, according to a letter posted Saturday afternoon by Advocate editor Jon...
Established in 2005 as part of NLGJA’s 15th anniversary celebration, the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame was launched to honor LGBT journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and whatever...
Okay, I totally stole that from Bravo's Andy Cohen, but he's a generous guy so he probably won't mind. 1. Congratulations to Bil Browning (The Bilerico Project), Joe Jervis (Joe.My.God.), Pam Spaulding (Pam's House Blend) and Andy Towle (Towleroad) for winning the New...
The National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez handwrings over Bill "too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids" Donahue's latest email blast about the use of the phrase "opposite-sex marriage" by the New York Times. A Lexis-Nexis search shows...
Stephen Jarchow, the 58-year-old chairman of Here Media Inc., owner of Gay.com, The Advocate and Out magazines, recently gave an interview to The Dallas Morning News in which he talks about the travails facing not only his company but the news media in general. One...
President Obama is set to sign into law the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act this Wednesday at 4:45 p.m in a White House event. The bill represents the first major piece of federal legislation dealing with the LGBT community ever signed...