by Bach Polakowski | Oct 9, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
I have to say I think it is rather disappointing that all CNN could come up with in terms of a gay Latino public figure for their online story is Perez Hilton and then make it seem he is the only one. “Hilton is a Latino pioneer. He is one of the first Latino...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 9, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
The Bay Area Reporter has lost a cherished colleague, Marcus Hernandez, who died late Thursday, October 8 at the age of 77. Known around the world as “Mister Marcus” he created a widely-read weekly column about the BDSM/leather community in October of...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 27, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
The August issue of Press Pass Q, a monthly newsletter about LGBT media issues, features two stories about the upcoming NLGJA Convention in Montreal set to take place September 10 – 13. Reporter Chuck Colbert, who will be moderating a panel during the LGBT...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 20, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyylxu07bYg] Local Bay Area media are being criticized for covering a press conference by homophobe Randy Thomasson, founder of the antigay lobbying group Campaign for California Families, at which he denounced the late gay...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 27, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
In its Sunday edition, July 26, the Washington Post interviewed Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, about the time in 1973 when the then 20-year-old Segal interrupted Walter Cronkite’s nightly news broadcast to protest the lack of coverage of...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 23, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
The Advocate announced this week that it has hired a former writer for the monthly publication, Jeremy Kinser, as its new senior editor. Kinser had worked over the last two years as the editor-in-chief of LA-based Frontiers, a former twice-monthly LGBT magazine that...
