by Bach Polakowski | Apr 3, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Sean Bugg of MetroWeekly has delved again into the use of LGBT as an inclusive shortand for the entire LGBT community. In a posting on Bilerico Project, Bugg asks whether LGBT is sometimes being misused and overinclusive, failing to recognize that one of those four...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 1, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Sundays are great for breaking the habit of quickly reading the news and settling in for something longer, less direct. Today, there are two great longform pieces of journalism about the lives of gay men worth checking out. First is the New York Times piece on the...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 30, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
It’s difficult for some journalists, especially LGBT journalists, to figure out how they feel about the GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project. While it has been praised by some, it has raised concerns from others. Kelly McBride of the Poynter...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 4, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
In the bad old days of covering the gay community, covering bar arrests and sex stings was de rigeur. Pictures of men being hauled from bar for being in “homosexual establishments” have been iconic symbols of pre- and post-Stonewall America. If you think...
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 | Feb 17, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Jim Romenesko links to an interesting blog by John L. Robinson about the language of the newsroom and suggests that journalists–who make their livings with words–shouldn’t feel constrained by pushing the boundaries of taste and sensitivities in their...
