by Bach Polakowski | Apr 27, 2015 | Index Page Top, News, Toolkit |
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments April, 28 on whether a state may refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 20, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
“They asked that we just use their first names.” About a minute into a story about a lesbian couple reacting to Maryland coming one-step closer to legalizing same-sex marriage, the phrase shows up in the report by WAMU (an NPR station in Washington, D.C.)....
by Bach Polakowski | Jan 28, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The most recent Press Pass Q has an excellent article about the use of “gay marriage” vs. “same-sex marriage” in LGBT publications. The article also explores whether “marriage equality” is only an activist term. The NLGJA stylebook...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 2, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
One of the founding principles for NLGJA (and other minority journalism groups) is supporting journalists in the newsroom who are assumed to be biased about LGBT news just because they are LGBT. It’s a smear that haunts all minority journalists, no matter the...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 4, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
The controversy over same-sex marriage announcements has found its way to the New Jersey Jewish Standard which announced today that it would no longer run same-sex marriage announcements after its first one caused a controversy. Now, the religious press is going to be...
