This week’s LGBT Front Pages

Marriage equality and President Barack Obama again dominated the front pages of the nation’s LGBT media this week. The Obama campaign’s roll out of its get-out-the-vote efforts targeted at LGBT people and the NAACP following the president’s lead by endorsing same-sex marriage received prominent play in several LGBT papers. With Pride month less than a [...]

This week’s LGBT Front Pages

President Barack Obama’s speaking in favor for same-sex marriage continued to reverberate this week, with many LGBT newspapers covering the impact his stance has had on celebrities and fellow lawmakers to black ministers and anti-gay groups. Here is a sampling of front pages from a variety of LGBT newspapers. Publishers of LGBT papers and magazines [...]

Transgender woman’s murder raises coverage questions

The murder of a transgender woman in downtown Oakland in late April has raised several coverage questions since the news broke. On Bay Area news sites that have covered the story, readers have left comments critical of journalists  for disclosing the victim’s male birth name. They contend the media should only refer to her by [...]

NLGJA launches LGBT newspaper covers roundup

Today marks the launch of a new feature on NLGJA’s main website, a weekly roundup of front pages from the country’s LGBT newspapers and magazines. It is part of a larger revamp of www.nlgja.org that is set to debut later this spring. Every Friday the page hosting the front page roundup will be updated with [...]

Boston LGBT newspaper Bay Windows prints letter from Republican US Senator Scott Brown

More than a year ago I took to task US Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) for refusing to speak to his state’s main LGBT newspaper. Bay Windows had been dogging the relatively moderate GOPer for his refusal to speak to it or any other LGBT media outlet since his election in 2010. Well, in last week’s [...]