A Day With Don Lemon

One of the powerful things about journalists being open about their sexual orientation and gender identity is that it allows them to open up their lives in ways a closeted journalist couldn’t.  That idea was brought home in this Creative Loafing-Atlanta story on CNN’s Don Lemon where we get Wyatt William’s glimpse into Lemon’s home [...]

When is a Teacher with a Porn Past News?

Lots of talk about the Boston Fox25 story focusing on a local teacher who was “ambushed” by a reporter about the teacher’s appearance in gay porn. The reporter, Michael Beaudet, has defended his work on Twitter but says he’s still on the story. Here’s the second day story from Fox25 where the reporter explains how he got the [...]

Asking Gay Questions

So you probably heard that former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell walked of the Piers Morgan show on CNN after she found questions about same-sex marriage and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to be “rude” and not part of the allegedly agreed-upon topics.  Here’s the clip On Sunday, we saw presidential candidate Michele Bachman stay rigidly [...]

Missing On-Air

Our friends at the Asian American Journalists Association–who just finished up their annual convention in Detroit–have a great fundraiser that highlights the lack of Asian American men in broadcast (tv, radio, and webcast). The AAJA Men’s Calendar, on sale here, features the top vote-getters in a poll and the guys then get splashed in a [...]

CNN’s Don Lemon Comes Out in New Book

The small number of openly gay and lesbian national news anchors has gotten larger with news that CNN’s Don Lemon discusses being gay in an upcoming book, Transparent. Here’s what he told the New York Times Few national television news anchors or hosts have publicly acknowledged being gay. Rachel Maddow is perhaps the best known. [...]