UPDATED: Resources for Reporting on the Ninth Circuit’s Prop 8 Ruling

UPDATE II: Analysis is beginning to pour in.  For a good, meaty explanation of the legal issues, check out Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSBlog.  Another thorough look, including the background, is from Chris Geidner at MetroWeekly. For a conservative take on the ruling, read Ed Whelan at National Review’s Bench Memos. A quick list of immediate [...]

No Release of Prop 8 Trial Recordings

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a decision by a trial judge to release the supposedly private recordings of the Prop 8 trial that were put under seal. Here’s what the court said in terms of press freedom in accessing court documents and materials: Second, our ruling has nothing to [...]

NLGJA, Journalism, and Proposition 8

After our very successful convention in San Francisco that brought together journalists from the traditional, LGBT, and citizen press, some questions continue to linger about NLGJA’s position on not-taking-a-position on Proposition 8 in California.  That discussion really goes to the core of NLGJA’s mission to encourage fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues. Veteran LGBT [...]

How the Prop 8 Ruling is Being Played: LGBT Print Media

Finishing up our coverage of  how the Prop 8 was played, a look at some of this week’s LGBT print media. Bay Area Reporter Washington Blade Philadelphia Gay News Dallas Voice Bay Windows Gay Lesbian Times (San Diego)

Same-Sex Marriage in DC and Polling

Assuming a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court isn’t successful, the District of Columbia will become the sixth “state” to allow same-sex marriage on Wednesday. One of the most talked-about angles is that D.C. is the first place in the country with same-sex marriage where the population is not overwhelmingly white.  In fact, D.C.’s population [...]