by Bach Polakowski | Dec 28, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
According to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a political group that supports LGBT candidates, there are currently at least 445 openly LGBT people holding elected office in the United States, up from 257 eight years ago. That stat is from an article in The New York...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Longtime NLGJA member and blogger Steve Rothaus reports that a new LGBT newspaper will launch in January 2010 titled South Florida Gay News (SFGN). SFGN’s publisher, Norm Kent, is the former owner of Express Gay News. He sold it to Window Media, which renamed it...
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 | Dec 14, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was interviewed for the December 11 edition of NPR’s On the Media. Most of the interview focuses on an article titled “Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World” that he wrote for Outside. The deck...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 10, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Conde Nast’s Details isn’t officially a gay magazine, but it doesn’t shy away from its gay readership. The magazine, however, has a history of sometimes offending its gay readers. The “Gay or Asian?” controversy in 2004 was the most...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 7, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Next Magazine is the reigning (and only) gay nightlife weekly guide to New York City. Mostly a mix of party listings, theater and dining recommendations with a dose of escort advertising, to its credit the publication often includes substantive feature articles. The...
