Overusing the LGBT

Sean Bugg of MetroWeekly has delved again into the use of LGBT as an inclusive shortand for the entire LGBT community.  In a posting on Bilerico Project, Bugg asks whether LGBT is sometimes being misused and overinclusive, failing to recognize that one of those four letters isn’t really being talked about.  In this situation, he looks [...]

Does the Exodus at Equality Matters Matter?

Fellow blogger Phil Reese had a story earlier this week in the Washington Blade about the departure of Richard Socarides and Kerry Eleveld from Equality Matters, the LGBT wing of Media Matters.  The announcement comes a little less that a year after EM launched to significant fanfare. Despite the splashy start, it appears things soured [...]

Parsing the Arrest in the Miller/Jenkins Custody Case

One of the most interesting, and confusing, stories of the weekend is the arrest of Timothy David Miller for allegedly helping Lisa Miller take her child to Nicaragua to avoid being reunited with the child’s custodial parent, Isabella Miller-Jenkins. I first read about the arrest from my former family law professor Nancy Polikoff, a blogger [...]

LGBT vs. GLBT: Metro Weekly Decides

Washington City Paper recently ran an article titled “Ladies First: Does D.C. Have a GLBT Community or an LGBT One?” The article focuses on the decision by The DC Center for the GLBT Community to change its name to The DC Center for the LGBT Community: Why the concern over the placement of a couple [...]

Sac Bee allows antigay claims to go unchallenged

Predictably some in the mainstream media can’t let a gay story run without quoting some antigay person – no matter if what that person has to say is irrelevant to the story or just downright false. Case in point: The Sacramento Bee and its story in today’s paper about the elevation of openly gay Assemblyman [...]