Advocacy works, even in journalism. Chris Crain, a well-known former editor of LGBT publications and the founding author of the Citizen Crain blog, provides fresh evidence. He took a months-long break from his blog, but has since returned. Here's an excerpt of a...
First, a confession. I don't watch American Idol and would be hard pressed to pick Adam Lambert out of a crowd at Starbucks. But I know that everyone has assumed he was gay since the first moment he appeared on the television screen with his painted fingernails and...
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+...
In celebration of Pride Month, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched a new Web site and campaign to recognize what it sees as the "many contributions made by LGBT preservationists and pioneers." It also aims to highlight the "sometimes-overlooked...
The numbers crunchers at the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found in its latest study that while the traditional media was focused on the nomination of Judge Sonya Sotamayor and North Korea, the new media conversation was on something...
I believe that certain words should be off limits (at least to some people). To my taste, "faggot" is one of those words. When used against a man who has sex with men, I believe it's equivalent to the N-word. In this context, I'll refer to it as the F-word (although...
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...
President Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1, proclaiming June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. Here are excerpts: "Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had...
The story is a great idea. A prominent conservative lawyer decides to file a federal lawsuit challenging Prop 8 in California. He gets a prominent liberal lawyer to help him out. An interview with Ted Olsen--Bush's lawyer during Bush v. Gore and later Solicitor...
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+...