by Bach Polakowski | Jun 18, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
The National Football League, like the military, appears to do most of its work naked and in the showers based on the rhetoric that often appears when the issue of integrating gay men into their ranks arises.
A “shower panic” argument by former NFL player Kenneth Hutcherson–now a pastor and anti-gay activist in Washington state–in the Washington Post’s The League conversation about gays in the NFL raises an interesting question about when to include extreme rhetoric and views or quotes in an otherwise rational, balanced piece of journalism.
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 9, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
First, a confession. I don’t watch American Idol and would be hard pressed to pick Adam Lambert out of a crowd at Starbucks. But I know that everyone has assumed he was gay since the first moment he appeared on the television screen with his painted fingernails...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 1, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
It’s hard to imagine that a movie review can turn into an ethical firestorm. But when the movie is a documentary about the secretly gay lives of conservative politicians and the review gets edited to exclude the names of some of the people mentioned, a firestorm...
