Archive for the ‘Media’ Category


Charlotte pastor: ‘I don’t care about your pain’

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 ...

Anti-gays pout over gay journo conference

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).

Another gay-straight double standard

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 ...

Another gay pub cuts back

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 ...

Introducing ‘CRISIS’

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 ...

PlanetOut struggles to stay alive?

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 ...

‘The Fox News of the gay community’

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 ...

More details in ‘S.C. is so gay’ ad controversy - Brit execs say state officials are lying?

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 ...

Ripped to shreads: Renzi gets Crain’d

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, ...

BREAKING: S.C. Gov. issued directive for “SC so gay” ad cancellation, Brit ad exec speaks to U.S. media

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 ...