Sean Bugg of MetroWeekly has delved again into the use of LGBT as an inclusive shortand for the entire LGBT community. In a posting on Bilerico Project, Bugg asks whether LGBT is sometimes being misused and overinclusive, failing to recognize that one of those four...
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Does the Exodus at Equality Matters Matter?
Fellow blogger Phil Reese had a story earlier this week in the Washington Blade about the departure of Richard Socarides and Kerry Eleveld from Equality Matters, the LGBT wing of Media Matters. The announcement comes a little less that a year after EM launched to...
Parsing the Arrest in the Miller/Jenkins Custody Case
One of the most interesting, and confusing, stories of the weekend is the arrest of Timothy David Miller for allegedly helping Lisa Miller take her child to Nicaragua to avoid being reunited with the child's custodial parent, Isabella Miller-Jenkins. I first read...
LGBT vs. GLBT: Metro Weekly Decides
Washington City Paper recently ran an article titled "Ladies First: Does D.C. Have a GLBT Community or an LGBT One?" The article focuses on the decision by The DC Center for the GLBT Community to change its name to The DC Center for the LGBT Community: Why the concern...
Sac Bee allows antigay claims to go unchallenged
Predictably some in the mainstream media can't let a gay story run without quoting some antigay person - no matter if what that person has to say is irrelevant to the story or just downright false. Case in point: The Sacramento Bee and its story in today's paper about...
Why the LGBT Press Matters
There's a belief that people say the nicest things about others during the eulogies at funerals. If only we said those things when people were alive, the thought goes, we'd be in a better place. So it goes as the "eulogies" begin to roll in over the demise of Window...
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...
When should the media cover antigay hate speech?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyylxu07bYg] Local Bay Area media are being criticized for covering a press conference by homophobe Randy Thomasson, founder of the antigay lobbying group Campaign for California Families, at which he denounced the late gay...
UPDATED: Helping the WSJ Understand the LGBT
It appears James Taranto and the folks at the Wall Street Journal opinion page didn't find our stylebook very helpful after yesterday's post, so it's time to lend a hand. The confusion is over how can you have an LGBT couple, as Pres. Obama referred to in his...
UPDATED: LGBT at WSJ
It looks James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal could use a handy copy of our Stylebook Supplement given his apparent confusion over what LGBT means in the same-sex marriage debate. Here's his take on the Obama press statement regarding the new brief filed in a...
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