Rob Williams and Arnie States, hosts of the Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning radio show heard in Sacramento, California on KRXQ 98.5 FM and Reno, Nevada on KDOT 104.5 FM, landed in hot water this week with the LGBT community for attacking transgender people on...
An abortion provider is gunned down at his church in Kansas. The accused killer has ties to the anti-abortion movement and far right extremist groups. The killer has a Christian "fish" symbol (icthus) on his car. Does that make him part of a "Christianist" conspiracy...
The Bi Writers Association (BWA) on Saturday, May 30, hosted the inaugural National Summit on Putting the "B" in LGBT at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York City. The all-day event was an impressive gathering of bisexual people and...
Not to beat up on NPR or anything, but... This morning, fellow freelancer, Erik Sherman drew my attention to an interview that NPR Supreme Court expert, Nina Totenberg did last weekend on Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon. Totenberg had this to say: There...
On Sunday, May 31, Yes! on Equality and Meet in the Middle for Equality hosted a Leadership Summit in Fresno with leaders from across the state to discuss the next steps towards marriage equality in California. It followed the public action Saturday where 3,000 people...
It's hard to imagine that a movie review can turn into an ethical firestorm. But when the movie is a documentary about the secretly gay lives of conservative politicians and the review gets edited to exclude the names of some of the people mentioned, a firestorm is...
On our first day online, RE:ACT received two encouraging posts in the blogosphere: Michael Jones at the Change.org Gay Rights blog wrote: "There's a new blog in town dedicated to ensuring fair and accurate coverage of news surrounding the LGBT population ......
Sometimes it’s not what is said, but what is not said that matters. That is often the case when mainstream media tackles LGBT stories. Last Tuesday, NPR’s "Talk of the Nation" devoted its first half-hour to a discussion of same-sex marriage and Prop 8. The California...
If there is anyone who is God's gift to a slow newsday, it is D.C. "Mayor for Life" Marion Barry. Barry--now a member of the D.C. City Council--stunned gay activists when he announced in late April that he was opposed to same-sex marriage efforts in the district. The...
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) released a statement about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on May 26: The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit appears to have caused some...