by Bach Polakowski | Jun 1, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
News today via Blabbeando and Twitter that Ricky Martin will be on the cover of People en Españols Father’s Day issue. Here’s what I wrote for Mediaite. While the English-language version of People has often been used as a coming-out vehicle, gay and...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 12, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Cuba is once again paying for sexual reassignment surgeries. The government began a program to fund the operations in 1988, but in response to complaints the program was suspended—until now. The new program is a direct result of the advocacy of Mariela Castro. She...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 16, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
N.Y. De Dia, a Spanish-language daily newspaper in New York City, has announced that it will publish Dimensión LGBT, a weekly pull-out section on LGBT news. Here’s an excerpt of their statement (English translation my own): N.Y. De Dia becomes the first Latino...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 9, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
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...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 1, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
CNN premieres its four-hour two-part series “Latino in America” at 9 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 21, and Thursday, October 22. Soledad O’Brien hosts. Here’s a brief description of the series from its website: By 2050, the U.S. Latino...
