by Bach Polakowski | Nov 10, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) held its 13th annual Courage Awards on Monday, November 9. AVP’s mission is “eliminating hate violence, sexual assault, stalking, and domestic violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 26, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
President Obama is set to sign into law the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act this Wednesday at 4:45 p.m in a White House event. The bill represents the first major piece of federal legislation dealing with the LGBT community ever signed...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 12, 2009 | Laura Laing
According to Marietta Daily Journal columnist, Dick Yarbrough, the city council ought not ban dogs from two city parks but train them to attack the gay men who are having sex there. Councilman Van Pearlberg is talking about banning dogs from the park. That is a bad...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 9, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
Journalists have difficult jobs. They are often asked to deal with complicated issues and unfamiliar questions. Such is the challenge for reporters in Albuquerque, N.M., covering a string of murders involving transgender Native Americans where two of the victims were...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 2, 2009 | NLGJA Updates
The Journalists LGBTQ+ Toolkit is designed primarily to assist journalists who don’t normally cover the LGBTQ community. The advice is drawn from outside media experts and our own members who are professional journalists for both mainstream media and the LGBTQ press....
