by Bach Polakowski | Dec 30, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Robin Roberts, the co-host of Good Morning America on ABC, thanked her longtime girlfriend Amber Laign in a Facebook post on Sunday, December 29: At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude. I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurses for my...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 27, 2013 | Guest Contributor, lgbt
By Matthew E. Berger (NLGJA board member and vice president of Dezenhall Resources, a crisis communications firm in Washington, D.C.) It’s been a pretty big week so far for LGBT news, with the much anticipated two days of hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court on...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 15, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
If you’re old enough to remember the 1980s, then there is no question that you often heard Whitney Houston’s voice emanating from radios worldwide. Only a handful of solo artists in the past few decades could claim to be in her league at the height of her...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 15, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett
Our friends at the Asian American Journalists Association–who just finished up their annual convention in Detroit–have a great fundraiser that highlights the lack of Asian American men in broadcast (tv, radio, and webcast). The AAJA Men’s Calendar,...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 17, 2011 | NLGJA Updates
NLGJA’s Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. It reflects the association’s mission of...