Charles Kaiser
An award-winning author and journalist, as well as an NLGJA founding board member and the second president of the New York Chapter of the NLGJA, Charles Kaiser has been practicing his craft since 1971, when he began writing for The New York Times while still an...
Lou Chibbaro, Jr.
A prize-winning reporter for the nation’s oldest LGBT news publication, The Washington Blade, Lou Chibbaro, Jr. first took up his pen in 1976 under the pseudonym Lou Romano. Fast forward four decades, Chibbaro has covered almost everything for the Blade, including the...
Alan Bell
Alan Bell has been an indelible, vibrant presence within LGBT journalism for almost 40 years. Beginning in 1977 when he founded Gaysweek, New York City’s first mainstream lesbian and gay newspaper, and continuing with BLK and Blackfire, Bell has been a pioneer of LGBT...
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel, the creator of the Bechdel Test for gender bias in works of fiction, has been writing for and about the LGBT community since 1983 when she began producing and self-syndicating Dykes to Watch Out For, a comic chronicling the lives, romances, and...
Randy Alfred
Randy Alfred may be best known for his detailed 1980 probe of the biased and unfair portrayal of San Francisco’s gay community inCBS Reports’ “Gay Power, Gay Politics,” an investigation that ultimately resulted in CBS making a rare public apology for its failed...Thank You from #NLGJA25
NLGJA has many to thank for making Coming Home, our 25th Anniversary Celebration National Convention & LGBT Media Summit, such a memorable success this past week in the Bay Area.
NLGJA Announces 2015-2016 National Board
Vice President of Broadcast Ken Miguel and Treasurer Sharif Durhams Re-Elected, Secretary Rick Stuckey Joins the Executive Committee
NLGJA Celebrates 25th Anniversary in San Francisco at “Coming Home” Convention
2015 marked the 25th anniversary of NLGJA. Current and past members, as well as NLGJA supporters and allies, “Came Home” to where it all began — San Francisco, California, for the National Convention and 11th annual LGBT Media Summit.
Mourning the Tragic Loss of WDBJ Reporter and Photographer
NLGJA joins our colleagues across the country in mourning the tragic loss of WDBJ Reporter Alison Parker and Photographer Adam Ward. Journalists risk their lives every day to bring the public the most up to date news. NLGJA expresses its condolences to the families of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, and we express our sincere sympathy to the WDBJ newsroom as they struggle with their loss.