by Bach Polakowski | Oct 3, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Established in 2005 as part of NLGJA’s 15th anniversary celebration, the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame was launched to honor LGBT journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and whatever...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 1, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
CNN premieres its four-hour two-part series “Latino in America” at 9 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 21, and Thursday, October 22. Soledad O’Brien hosts. Here’s a brief description of the series from its website: By 2050, the U.S. Latino...
by Bach Polakowski | Sep 22, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Regan Hofmann, editor in chief of POZ (and, full disclosure, my boss!), recently published her memoirs. I Have Something to Tell You details her experience coming to terms with being HIV positive as a straight white woman. From the product description on Amazon.com:...
by Bach Polakowski | Sep 21, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
I moderated an exciting panel at the 2009 NLGJA annual conference in Montreal titled “Battle Fatigue: Is There Nothing New to Say About AIDS?” Unfortunately, the answer is that there’s still plenty to say. We had three amazing panelists. In the...
by Bach Polakowski | Sep 2, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
For the September 2009 issue of POZ, I wrote an article titled “Lost in Translation” discussing media coverage of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community. I took to task the mainstream media and the Latino media. They ignore the problem completely or provide too...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 21, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The local LGBT news magazine Metro Weekly based in Washington, DC, recently interviewed Kerry Eleveld, the Washington, DC, correspondent for the national LGBT news magazine The Advocate. As the article by Sean Bugg points out, Eleveld is arguably the face of the LGBT...
