His language is essentially out of the NLGJA stylebook. He includes multiple points of view. He talks objectively about LGBT issues from a news perspective and features LGBT news prominently on his blog. His opinions on how the Obama administration is handling LGBT...
The Journalists LGBTQ+ Toolkit is designed primarily to assist journalists who don’t normally cover the LGBTQ community. The advice is drawn from outside media experts and our own members who are professional journalists for both mainstream media and the LGBTQ press....
I'm probably not the only person who wonders what life will be like when I get (even) older, so a package of stories from the Chicago Tribune really got my attention because they took on a story that's not often told: aging LGBT people. The three stories by Rex W....
I was asked quite unexpectedly last week to be a guest on "Talk of the Nation" on National Public Radio (NPR) to discuss coming out as gay and HIV positive. One of their researchers liked the article ("Coming Out Again") that I had written for POZ about my story and...
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...
Being that I work at an LGBT newspaper that has seen a large drop off in advertising this year - at 36 pages an issue the paper is half the size as it used to be when I started at the Bay Area Reporter in 2001 - this guest opinion from this week's issue of the Gay and...
Why do newspapers hide their own newsrooms' content online? Here in San Francisco both of the mainstream papers in town, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, have redesigned their main Web sites to make it that much harder to find and just read...
The National Football League, like the military, appears to do most of its work naked and in the showers based on the rhetoric that often appears when the issue of integrating gay men into their ranks arises.
A “shower panic” argument by former NFL player Kenneth Hutcherson–now a pastor and anti-gay activist in Washington state–in the Washington Post’s The League conversation about gays in the NFL raises an interesting question about when to include extreme rhetoric and views or quotes in an otherwise rational, balanced piece of journalism.
A recent item in Obit Magazine by writer Michael Schaffer critiqued the U.S. obituaries of Danny La Rue, a famous British drag performer, who died at 81. Here's an excerpt: "The obits from the British press were magnificent: 'Beneath huge headdresses and decked out in...
Our co-blogger Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. is featured on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation today discussing coming out and his column in Poz magazine describing his coming out experiences. The show was a great example of what can be done with the intimacy of...