Open Letter to the News Industry: National Coming Out Day

Dear Colleagues, Tuesday, October 11, 2011, is National Coming Out Day (NCOD). The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association encourages news organizations to take the opportunity presented by this national event to chronicle the LGBT narrative to their readers. Journalists play an important role in presenting diverse communities to the general public.  This is an [...]

Ann Curry and Don Lemon at 2011 NLGJA Convention

Ann Curry, new co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show, and Don Lemon, prime-time weekend anchor for CNN, will be keynote speakers at the NLGJA convention, Aug. 25-28 in Philadelphia. Curry, formerly news anchor for “Today” for 14 years, was named in May as Matt Lauer’s co-anchor. She succeeds Meredith Vieira, who chose to leave the morning [...]

2011 NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Awards

The recipient of this year’s Journalist of the Year is LZ Granderson of ESPN and CNN. The recipient of this year’s Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media goes to freelance journalist Michael Luongo. NLGJA’s Excellence in Journalism Awards were established in 1993 to foster, recognize and reward excellence in journalism on issues [...]

Updates to NLGJA Social Media

For those of you who may not be aware, NLGJA is actively involved in social media, primarily on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We invite all of you—whether you’re members of NLGJA or not—to follow us, friend us or join us on those platforms. For LinkedIn, you have to be a LinkedIn member and request to join [...]

NLGJA Stylebook: “Queen”

NLGJA’s Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. It reflects the association’s mission of inclusive coverage of LGBT people and includes entries on words and phrases that have become common. The Stylebook Supplement was translated into [...]