Just First Names, Please

“They asked that we just use their first names.” About a minute into a story about a lesbian couple reacting to Maryland coming one-step closer to legalizing same-sex marriage, the phrase shows up in the report by WAMU (an NPR station in Washington, D.C.). The story goes on to use the couple’s first names, the [...]

Marriage Equality, Gay Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

The most recent Press Pass Q has an excellent article about the use of “gay marriage” vs. “same-sex marriage” in LGBT publications. The article also explores whether “marriage equality” is only an activist term. The NLGJA stylebook supplement suggests “marriage for same-sex couples” but prefers “same-sex marriage” over “gay marriage” because its more inclusive of [...]

Chick-Fil-A and NLGJA: Can a Lesbian Be Objective About Chick-Fil-A’s Problems?

One of the founding principles for NLGJA (and other minority journalism groups) is supporting journalists in the newsroom who are assumed to be biased about LGBT news just because they are LGBT.  It’s a smear that haunts all minority journalists, no matter the evidence to the contrary.  Which brings us to Chicken sandwiches. More specifically, [...]

No Mazel Tovs for Same-Sex Weddings in New Jersey Jewish Paper

The controversy over same-sex marriage announcements has found its way to the New Jersey Jewish Standard which announced today that it would no longer run same-sex marriage announcements after its first one caused a controversy. Now, the religious press is going to be held to a different standard than the mainstream press, but this kerfuffle [...]

DOMA Affects Us All, Even Journalists

NLGJA board member Susan Green is a professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University with more than 20 years experience in broadcast journalism. She recently married Robin Phillips, also a fellow journalist, in Massachusetts. Susan wrote about her marriage for NPR: Thursday’s court decision concerning the Defense of Marriage Act is [...]