Reaction to the NYT Coverage of the Death of Lorena Escalera

We are cross-posting a story from Bilerico Project by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss on the New York Times coverage of the death of Lorena Escalera in a fire.  Concerns over the coverage has prompted a response from the paper.  NY Times to LGBT Community: ‘That Will Be All There Is From Us’ Imagine for a moment, [...]

Transgender woman’s murder raises coverage questions

The murder of a transgender woman in downtown Oakland in late April has raised several coverage questions since the news broke. On Bay Area news sites that have covered the story, readers have left comments critical of journalists  for disclosing the victim’s male birth name. They contend the media should only refer to her by [...]

The Trans Moment on MSNBC

Mara Keisling writes at Huffington Post about last week’s Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC where they spent an hour discussing trans issues. In addition to Keisling, from the National Center for Transgender Equality, the show featured Kate Bornstein and N.Y.C. City Council Candidate Mel Wymore. For one of the first times that I can remember, trans people [...]

HuffPost Gay Voices on Being Out as Journalists

HuffPost Gay Voices is conducting a series of “Voice to Voice” conversations between LGBT authors. They did a few of them for Black History Month. Among them was a conversation between Clay Cane and Janet Mock. Cane is the entertainment editor for BET.com and the host of Clay Cane Live on WWRL 1600AM in New [...]

Talking to a Transgender Teen

The non-profit journalism organization Voice of San Diego has already gotten big buzz and a story this week on a transgender teen who spoke at a school board meeting about bullying explains why website has been so successful: great stories, great interviewer, and finding great subjects. Blessed with an incredibly mature high school junior, writer [...]