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 27, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
In its Sunday edition, July 26, the Washington Post interviewed Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, about the time in 1973 when the then 20-year-old Segal interrupted Walter Cronkite’s nightly news broadcast to protest the lack of coverage of...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 1, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
The Advocate has released its list of top political and Gay(ish) blogs. The line seems a little blurred to me—Joe.My.God seems to fit in the same category as TowleRoad, while Pam’s House Blend seems to be pretty political and less general—but it’s still an...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 25, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
With the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall coming up this weekend, it’s worth pointing out two good examples of the use of multimedia to tell the story of Stonewall and the LGBT civil rights movement. The first was coordinated by my former colleague (and current...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 19, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Being that I work at an LGBT newspaper that has seen a large drop off in advertising this year – at 36 pages an issue the paper is half the size as it used to be when I started at the Bay Area Reporter in 2001 – this guest opinion from this week’s...