Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
The Charlotte Observer today published a front-pager on the new book edited by Mitchell Gold, featuring 40 stories of gay and lesbian people's ordeals growing up gay in America and their experiences in the church.
"CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, LGBT, Media, North Carolina, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Brian Fitzpatrick of the anti-gay Culture and Media Institute (home of the rabidly anti-gay Robert Knight) isn't too pleased with the recent National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association annual convention in Washington, D.C. (which I attended Aug. 21-24).
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, Media, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Remember when Britney Spears was 16, totally hot and topping the charts? Remember her skimpy, Catholic school girl uniform?
People went crazy. Men from 8 to 80 took notice. Older guys, they were called "dirty."
Take good-looking young men, put them in the same Hollywood, music and media spotlight and, duh, there ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Media, Sexuality, United States | 9 Comments »
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Like the rest of my life, I'm a few days behind on the news.
Just a couple days ago I posted about PlanetOut's continued financial problems. After posting an accumulated loss of $100 million, it was later announced the first LGBT company ever publicly traded is now facing threats of losing ...
Posted in LGBT, Media, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I am excited to be among the 40 contributors from around the nation who are working to announce the forth-coming release of our book, CRISIS, by Mitchell Gold.
CRISIS features my story of growing up in a conservative, fundamentalist Baptist faith community and home in Winston-Salem, N.C. Proceeds from the sell ...
Posted in LGBT, Media, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 5 Comments »
Monday, August 11th, 2008
PlanetOut, the former owner of The Advocate and Out magazines, among others, has seen some bad news in the past few weeks.
At the end of July, the company posted an accumulated loss of $99.8 million. Whew -- almost $100 million lost since their creation in 2000.
Today, a press release landed ...
Posted in LGBT, Media, United States | 4 Comments »
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Seems as though DNC Chair Howard Dean is no fan of The Washington Blade.
In taped depositions in the LGBT-DNC lawsuit, Dean calls the foremost LGBT newspaper in the nation the "Fox News of the gay community."
In a 2006 interview with IN Los Angeles Magazine, Dean said of The Blade, "First ...
Posted in Democratic Party, LGBT, Media, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Yeah... it pretty much sounds as though British advertising execs Ian Johnson (Out Now Consulting) and Andrew Roberts (Amro Worldwide), who've spoken extensively with Q-Notes, are calling South Carolina government officials liars.
According to Q-Notes, Johnson and Roberts say that South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) officials made ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Media, Politics, South Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Friday, July 18th, 2008
I've always had a good bit of respect for Chris Crain, former Washington Blade/SoVo editor and partner in Window Media. Of course that isn't saying I've always agreed with him, but I have had admiration for the part he played in creating a power-house of a media company.
Back in May, ...
Posted in LGBT, Media, United States | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
QNotes (Charlotte, NC), the Carolinas' LGBT multimedia news source (disclosure: I'm employed as editor) is reporting that the directive to cancel the "South Carolina is so gay" London gay pride advertising campaign came straight from the office of S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford:
When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford learned that his ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Media, South Carolina, United States | 2 Comments »
