by Bach Polakowski | Jul 29, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By James Miller (Media Critic, WFPL) In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, most people had no idea how AIDS was transmitted. Even as late as 1999, many people believed that they could get AIDS from public toilets or sharing drinking glasses with an HIV-positive...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 27, 2013 | Guest Contributor
This was a banner week for the LGBTQ community, with the Supreme Court’s rulings on Proposition 8 (no standing for an appeal, sent back to the lower court, which means the lower-court decision overturning Prop. 8 holds) and the Defense of Marriage Act (section 3,...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 14, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By Michael Tune (NLGJA executive director) I am all over the place in my passions. I can get so excited about golf, then cars, then religion, then “The Great Gatsby.” My husband and I joke about my “flavor of the month,” a trend that actually runs in some of my...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 27, 2013 | Guest Contributor, lgbt
By Matthew E. Berger (NLGJA board member and vice president of Dezenhall Resources, a crisis communications firm in Washington, D.C.) It’s been a pretty big week so far for LGBT news, with the much anticipated two days of hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court on...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 21, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By Todd A. Heywood (Senior Reporter, The American Independent) LANSING – The conversation went something like this: “You mean you would report my HIV status?” the man asked. “If it was relevant to the story, yes, yes I would,” I told him....
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 6, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By Michael Tune, NLGJA executive director I recently attended a session of the NLGJA monthly webinars, entitled “Follow Your Inner Leader” with leadership coach and journalist Robert Naylor. The session was fascinating, and reminded me of some of the core skills it...
