The Elkhart Truth, a local Indiana newspaper, published an engagement announcement this past weekend of a same-sex couple who lives and plans to marry in Iowa, where marriage for same-sex couples is legal. The fact that it's illegal in Indiana apparently caused a big...
I would like to respond to my fellow blogger Oriol's question - Does the LGBT media have more freedom than the mainstream media to blur the lines between activism and journalism in terms of how coverage in the LGBT press may be influencing the Obama administration's...
"Reporting on the 'Summer of Obummer'" is the title of an article by Chuck Colbert in the July 2009 issue of Press Pass Q (tagline: "A Newsletter and Trade Publication for the LGBT Media Professional), which is published by Rivendell Media. The article makes the case...
A controversy is simmering in Toronto over Israel, Palestinians, Gay Pride, outing, and media ethics. Who can resist a media scandal like this? From what I can piece together, it started when a pro-Palestine (or anti-Israel, depending on your take)--Queers Against...
Certain phrases prove to be difficult to erase once they have been written into our language. "HIV virus" is one of those phrases. "HIV virus" is redundant. The word "virus" is already included in the acronym of the human immunodeficiency virus. Here's the entry for...
Journalists have difficult jobs. They are often asked to deal with complicated issues and unfamiliar questions. Such is the challenge for reporters in Albuquerque, N.M., covering a string of murders involving transgender Native Americans where two of the victims were...
I have a confession to make—Michael Jackson and I shared the same birthday. Twelve years older than me, I admit that he represented a fantasy older brother-like figure in my life when I was younger (I have only one sibling, a sister who is almost 10 years older than...
Before heading to the Vatican, Obama met with reporters from a number of Catholic publications--and the Washington Post--and the big gay news is just leaking out. Here's what Obama had to say about his faith and the LGBT community. For the gay and lesbian community in...
They say "timing is everything" and The Advocate's editor in chief, Jon Barrett, is in the unenviable--or perfectly timed--position of defending the magazine's cover story on Perez Hilton. With Perez spending more time making headlines then reporting gossip, Barrett...
It's easy to take the idea of a newspaper allowing a same-sex couple to take out an advertisement announcing their marriage for granted when you live inside the Northeast Corridor/West Coast bubble. But such a move is still a big deal in many parts of the country, and...