by Bach Polakowski | Feb 3, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
The Super Bowl has been big LGBT news over the past few weeks. Everywhere we turn, there is some LGBT angle. One story, the rejected ManCrunch ad, has gotten more complicated. While many in the media and blogosphere rushed to attack CBS for not taking the ad, there...
by Bach Polakowski | Jan 29, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
Lambda Legal has entered the fray between Atlanta Falcons player Ovie Mughelli and several blogs and gossip sites who have reported on his alleged relationship with a man. Rod McCollom at Rod 2.O has the the letter. Mughelli’s lawyer began sending out cease and...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
Blogger David Badash at the New Civil Rights Movement is going after CNN for using the term “admit” in describing the way international rugby star Gareth Thomas announced that he was gay. Here’s how CNN said it, in a story headlined “Thomas...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 18, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
There has been plenty of media coverage on the death of LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner, who for a time was known as Christine Daniels. The most recent example is “Requiem for a Transsexual Sportswriter” by Jacob Bernstein, a senior reporter for The...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 29, 2009 | NLGJA Updates
Today brought the sad news that Los Angeles Times sports columnist Mike Penner–who spoke at NLGJA’s 2007 Convention as Christine Daniels–was found dead today of an apparent suicide. Here’s a brief statement from NLGJA’s president David...
