NYT Covers Transgender Candidates

The New York Times published a great article on transgender candidates running in this mid-term election. “Advocates Hope Transgender Identity Is Not a Defining One” was the headline. The article starts with the story of Theresa Sparks, who would be the...

Longtime out TV news reporter Hank Plante to retire

The Bay Area Reporter broke the news on its blog last Thursday, March 11 that longtime openly gay television reporter Hank Plante will retire at the end of the month. Plante is considered one of the first on-air journalists to come out publicly. And he long has been a...

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...

Black, White or Gay?

A terrific piece in the Los Angeles Times about the mayoral race in Atlanta, which pits a white woman–Mary Norwood–against an African American man–Kasim Reed.  While the run-off was expected to come down to a question of race and voter-turnout, the...