When mobster turned informant Robert Mormando appeared in a Brooklyn court on October 19 for a hearing on his sentence for a botched hit, the last thing anyone expected to hear was the defendant out himself as a gay man. Mormando already had pleaded guilty for taking...
If LGBT rights are the most important civil rights battle of the moment, why are there so few openly LGBT voices on the editorial pages of the nation's largest newspapers? That's one of the many fascinating questions Dan Savage asks Frank Rich in an interview that...
Everyone has a right to an opinion. And Bill Donohue--of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights--has a lot of them. He's in a little hot water over a column at On Faith, the joint Newsweek/Washington Post religion portal, over a recent column on...
Last week, we gave a shout-out to the Washington Blade's 40th Anniversary, and featured their longtime reporter, Lou Chibbaro Jr. The Washington Post is also taking notice of Chibbaro with a great Style section cover story on the LGBT news veteran. In a profession...
The October 2009 issue of Press Pass Q ("A Newsletter and Trade Publication for the LGBT Media Professional") is a special edition covering the 2009 NLGJA conference in Montreal. The main story covers the LGBT media summit panel titled "Prop. 8 + Web 2.0 = Stonewall...
In a New York Times story on artist David Hockney, the reporter describes Hockney's life in bucolic England as an inspiration for his current work. She offers this transition to discuss an upcoming show of his latest paintings. In 2005 Mr. Hockney — temporarily, he...
All blogging is not created equal, of course, but that becomes even clearer when you look at techPresident's list of the top 50 political blogs. The list includes three "LGBT blogs" in their top 50--Andrew Sullvian's Daily Dish, John Aravosis' Americablog, and Pam...
Congratulations to my friends at the Washington Blade for celebrating their 40th anniversary covering the LGBT community and news in Washington, D.C. They have a great set of features on the website that definitely shouldn't be missed. The Blade plays a unique role...
The facts are relatively straight forward. A man is found dead at a space known for hosting "private parties" for gay men. It's not clear how he died and no one seems to be talking. Reporters can't even seem to figure out how to find the owner of the townhouse where...
Fellow NLGJA blogger Michael Triplett has done an amazing wrap up of this past weekend's events, including instant reaction to President Obama's speech to the Human Rights Campaign and how the media covered the National Equality March. In Michael's post about coverage...