Statement from UNITY: McLEAN, Va. — UNITY: Journalists for Diversity is pleased to announce the election of David Steinberg as its president. “I appreciate the support of the UNITY board and plan to announce, as early as next week, specific proposals to reform UNITY...
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2012 NLGJA Annual Scholarship Award Winners
Washington, DC- The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) announced the winners of its two annual scholarship awards. Both scholarships – worth $3,000 each – are awarded each year to deserving students who are dedicated to furthering NLGJA's...
Newsroom survey should include question on sexual orientation / gender identity
Today the American Society of News Editors released its annual report on the makeup of the country's newsrooms as it closed out its three-day confab in Washington, D.C. While the group found a "very slim increase" in newsroom employees last year, for the third...
Roy Aarons is Smiling
I didn't know Leroy Aarons, credited with being the founding father of NLGJA. He died shortly after I attended my first convention in New York and I never had the chance to meet him. Yet, in the midst of the discussion over whether NLGJA should accept an invitation to...
UPDATE: NLGJA Joining UNITY Coalition
Historic news from NLGJA and UNITY this morning. The NLGJA board has unanimously voted to accept an invitation to join UNITY as a full member. We will be joining our colleagues at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Asian American Journalists...
UNITY Asks NLGJA to Join Alliance
Some big news was made last night at the NLGJA convention in Philadelphia when President David Steinberg announced the board has approved him to officially continue talks about NLGJA joining UNITY, an alliance of "journalists of color" that includes the Asian...
Is WaPo About to Rethink Its Policy of Identifying Gays?
A column by Washington Post Ombudsman Andy Alexander and a follow-up on his blog suggests that the paper is on the verge of reconsidering its policy on identifying the sexual orientation of people in news stories. The possible change comes as many have questioned the...
Where are the Gay and Lesbian Opinion Columnists/Pundits?
While the number of openly LGBT journalists has flourished since NLGJA was formed 20 years ago, there are still some glaring holes. One is the lack of LGBT on-air reporters in television and the complete lack of LGBT anchors on the networks and cable news shows...
Say it Ain’t So, Joe
As President Obama is set to take the stage at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner here in Washington, the LGBT blogosphere has been abuzz about an email blast sent out of by HRC’s president Joe Solmonese–which he later clarified–suggesting the LGBT community needed to be patient with Obama and not act like it’s the end of Obama’s presidency, not the beginning.
CNN’s Gay Latino story really misses the mark
I have to say I think it is rather disappointing that all CNN could come up with in terms of a gay Latino public figure for their online story is Perez Hilton and then make it seem he is the only one. "Hilton is a Latino pioneer. He is one of the first Latino public...
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