Judge Walker is ‘Openly Gay’? Really??

As inevitable as the sun rising in the morning, the issue of Judge Vaughn Walker’s sexual orientation is again front-and-center after the ruling on Proposition 8 in California. Sitting in my car listening to NPR on Wednesday, I heard correspondent Karen Grigsby...

Profiling Michael Rogers

A nice profile of Michael Rogers in D.C.’s MetroWeekly by Will O’Bryan. No one generates heat inside traditional LGBT journalism circles more than Mike and he is a force to be reckoned with.  But he’s willing to engage critics and has been at the...

Lavender Reporter Speaks Out Against Critics

John Townsend, the reporter at the center of the Lavender outing coverage, has written a letter to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune blasting his critics–including NLGJA–for questioning the ethics of his story. Brock’s bully pulpit has assaulted gays and...

More on Outing Courage

The Minnesota Post’s media critic David Brauer has done some digging into the Lavender magazine profile of Rev. Tom Brock and provides some additional insight into the magazine’s justification for sending a reporter undercover to a Catholic support group...

The Ethics of Outing Courage — UPDATED

A provocative piece (hat tip: Queerty) in Lavender magazine in Minnesota where a reporter attended meetings of Courage, the Catholic ministry for gays and lesbians, and outed a Lutheran minister known for his “anti-gay” positions.  The story, by John...