by Bach Polakowski | Jul 2, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko
Us muckrakers in the gay print media are used to seeing yearly treatises claiming our demise. Whether it be bloggers with out-sized bravado claiming their site will be the end of all local LGBT papers or some new-kid-on-the-block publisher who chews off more than he...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 2, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
A friend on Facebook drew attention to a story in the conservative Daily Caller about Amtrak targeting the LGBT community in promotion and ads. A fairly banal story but, as my friend said, “I’m trying to figure out how this story gets from a discussion of...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 27, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Yahoo gave me my first personal email address (which I still use) and taught me how to search online. But I now almost always begin my online searches with Google (as do most people). Despite their rivalry, I love both Yahoo and Google. And since both companies have...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 9, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
In a mea-culpa for her coverage on ex-gay therapy, CNN’s Kara Phillips said it was a mistake to have Richard Cohen on her show without a countering expert. But she also had very sharp words for the e-mailers who contacted her voicing their outrage. I wish that...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 2, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
Last week, on my way back from the NYC fundraising event for NLGJA, I was picking up a magazine at Penn Station waiting for my train. They had three LGBT magazines: Out, the UK’s Attitude, and the French magazine Tetu. I’d recently picked up Tetu when I...
