Michelangelo Signorile has joined HuffPost Gay Voices as editor-at-large. Noah Michelson continues as editor. Here's an excerpt from Signorile's inaugural post: This is a pivotal, exciting time for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. From Hollywood and...
LGBT media
Is There Enough LGBT News to Sustain a Huge Marketplace?
David Badash in the Huffington Post has taken his earlier work on the future of LGBT news sites (from his blog the New Civil Rights Movement) to a larger audience. It relies on a story at the Nieman Labs on whether it is possible to be too niche when it comes to...
HuffPost Gay Voices Debuts
The Huffington Post has launched Gay Voices, another "vertical" (their term for a specific section of the site) in their seemingly ever-growing list (Black Voices, Latino Voices, etc.) serving content by user demographics. In his inaugural post welcoming readers, Gay...
Comments and the Internet Closet
I remember the first time I bought a gay magazine. It was 1984 and I was living in Columbia, Missouri, going to college. There was a " head shop" in downtown Columbia that carried The Advocate along with High Times and incense. Reading a gay magazine or newspaper was...
Logo Shutters 365Gay.com
Sad news via Jennifer Vanasco's Twitter. Logo is shutting down 365Gay.com. Here's what Vanasco has to say about the closing: September 30 will be our last day of operations. Logo’s focus has shifted as a network and so the site is closing and I am moving on to other...
Is Apple’s New CEO Gay?
As NLGJA's annual convention begins today in Philadelphia, the national news provides one of the enduring ethical questions when covering LGBT folks: when do we say someone is gay (or lesbian or bisexual or transgender)? From our very first convention where Andrew...
Why the LGBT Media Matters
NLGJA board member Barbara Dozetos has written an excellent defense of LGBT media for The Huffington Post: As the general population grows more accepting of our community, is the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) news media still relevant? Do we really...
The Undocumented Closet
One of the most buzzed about stories of the week is the revelation by openly gay journalist Jose Antonio Vargas that he is an undocumented immigrant. There are two nice summaries of reactions inside the journalism world at Richard Prince's Journal-isms blog at the...
2011 NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Awards
The recipient of this year's Journalist of the Year is LZ Granderson of ESPN and CNN. The recipient of this year's Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media goes to freelance journalist Michael Luongo. NLGJA's Excellence in Journalism Awards were...
Conscience Rules for Caterers?
With passage of a law legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, we are beginning to see "second day" stories about the decision and its impact. One of the more curious arguments being hashed out in the media is whether wedding vendors who are opposed to same-sex...
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