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...

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...

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...

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...