by Bach Polakowski | Oct 7, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Born: 1954 Died: 1988 “The bottom line is this: We are black men who are proudly gay. What we offer is our lives, our loves, our visions … We are coming home with our heads held up high.” -Joseph Beam Joseph Beam is an official honoree today for LGBT...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 29, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By Mark Segal (Publisher, Philadelphia Gay News) What surprised me most at the National Lesbian Gay Journalists Association annual convention in Boston last week was the concern for print media. Granted, print media is having a hard time at present; it doesn’t know...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 28, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By Mark S. King The turning point could be traced to August of 1998. It was the month that, for the first time in well over a decade, the Bay Area Reporter did not have a single AIDS obituary submitted for publication. The promise of protease inhibitor medications...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 7, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The recent decision by The Associated Press (AP) to discourage the use of the terms “homophobia” and “Islamaphobia” has prompted much discussion. NLGJA president Michael Triplett emailed the following to Andrew Beaujon at Poynter: The general...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 13, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The LGBT blog Queerty wrote this attention-grabbing headline in response to recent news about gonorrhea: “Super Bug: Is Gonorrhea the New AIDS?” The post by Dan Avery is the result of new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
