It's inevitable, I guess, that a discussion of gay and lesbian people will turn into a discussion of sex, especially in the context of religion. So when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved gay and lesbian people who are in committed relationships to...
As predicted, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became the largest denomination in the U.S. to allow non-celibate gays and lesbians in committed relationships to be ministers, while also making way for the blessing of same-sex relationships. What makes the...
The local LGBT news magazine Metro Weekly based in Washington, DC, recently interviewed Kerry Eleveld, the Washington, DC, correspondent for the national LGBT news magazine The Advocate. As the article by Sean Bugg points out, Eleveld is arguably the face of the LGBT...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyylxu07bYg] Local Bay Area media are being criticized for covering a press conference by homophobe Randy Thomasson, founder of the antigay lobbying group Campaign for California Families, at which he denounced the late gay...
It appears James Taranto and the folks at the Wall Street Journal opinion page didn't find our stylebook very helpful after yesterday's post, so it's time to lend a hand. The confusion is over how can you have an LGBT couple, as Pres. Obama referred to in his...
As the long summer winds down, things are heating up in Lake Wobegon country as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is poised to vote during its Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis on allowing non-celibate LGBT people to be ministers. If approved, the ELCA...
It looks James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal could use a handy copy of our Stylebook Supplement given his apparent confusion over what LGBT means in the same-sex marriage debate. Here's his take on the Obama press statement regarding the new brief filed in a...
The use of the phrase "no homo" in hip-hop music was analyzed recently in "Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay?" by Jonah Weiner, a pop critic for Slate.com. The phrase has been around since the 1990s and is invoked whenever a person wants to make it clear that...
The challenge of being a wire-service reporter is sometimes you are stuck trying to make a news story out of little news. This appears to be the problem AP's Jennifer Dobner had in covering the nationwide "kiss-ins" that largely failed and tying it to her own beat,...
I'll admit that I'm one of those people who loves reading the Weddings/Celebration section of the New York Times, and now the Washington Post. It's not that I'm a hopeless romantic, but I love the sociology and anthropology of whose weddings are worthy of a "news"...