The olst LGBTQ newspaper the U.S. verg the latt gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr news Washgton, DC and around the world.
Contents:
- WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
- KEN BAKER WIKI, MARRIED, WIFE, GAY, FAY, E! NEWS, SALARY, NET WORTH
- ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER
- MARA GAY
- HOW A RSIAN JOURNALIST EXPOSED THE ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN CHECHNYA
- HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN MP TAK LEAD ON MP 'GUS WHO'S GAY' REALY TV SHOW
- A GAY RSIAN, EXILED IRELAND
WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
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KEN BAKER WIKI, MARRIED, WIFE, GAY, FAY, E! NEWS, SALARY, NET WORTH
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Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn. All My Children Star Jefey Carlson Dead at 48All My Children alum Jefey Carlson, one of the first actors to play a transgenr character on daytime televisn, has 9, 2023The Terrifyg Te Story of the Last Call KillerThe HBO doceri Last Call digs to the hunt for a serial killer who targeted gay men New York the early '90s—and why the victims were almost lost to 9, 2023Billy Porter and Hband Adam Smh Spl After 6 Years"Pose" actor Billy Porter and his hband Adam Smh are gog their separate ways after six years of marriage.
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The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn. Kev Maxen is first openly gay male NFL ach.
ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER
Mara Gay is a member of the New York Tim edorial board, focg on New York State and lol affairs. Before g to The Tim 2018, she was a Cy Hall reporter at The Wall Street Journal, verg Mayors Bill Blas and Michael Bloomberg and dozens of other stori that have shaped the natn’s largt, most dynamic cy. Ms. Gay has also worked for The New York Daily News, The Atlantic and The Daily, an all-digal newspaper owned by News Corp. She has a gree polil science om the Universy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a New York Cy native and liv Brooklyn. * e news gay reporter *
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Shilts, often hailed as one of the natn’s first openly gay reporters for a major daily newspaper, was not the first choice on the list. As the edors at the San Francis Chronicle began to unrstand that they uld no longer ignore—or ny—that gay people were a major polil, enomic, and social force the muny, the stoic Chronicle took a bold step and sought out an openly gay reporter to ver gay-related stori the cy. The Chronicle already had an unofficial “gay beat” via the work of cy-si reporter Ron Moswz, a wrer who moved over to journalism 1967 after workg as an ai to California ernor Edmund G.
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Moswz had begun quietly verg gay news as early as 1977 and wrote a noteworthy seri of articl 1979 about a policy of the US Immigratn and Naturalizatn Service that prohibed openly gay tourists om enterg the untry. As a rult, his tle as “the first openly gay reporter on a major daily newspaper” actually needs an asterisk. Edor Alan Mutter relled that some qutns of objectivy persisted for some, but he and other edors were nsistent their statements to the newspaper’s edorial staff (and to rears) that they saw no nflict of tert havg a gay man report on gay issu, cludg AIDS, a disease epimic primarily impactg gay men.
“Everybody went out of their way to be nice and supportive of me, and there had been somebody else the newsroom before me who was gay, so the edors and reporters were iendly, ” Shilts said. Origally assigned to ver general assignment stori, cludg some stori om the gay muny, as a new reporter Shilts took whatever an edor sent his way. “That was fe wh me, bee I didn’t want to ver jt gay stuff, even though that was part of what I wanted to do, ” he said.
HOW A RSIAN JOURNALIST EXPOSED THE ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN CHECHNYA
Shilts “was the first reporter that I know of who uld see that this was not simply gog to be a gay disease.
The story that would fe Shilts’s legacy as a journalist and thor me via overheard nversatns and discsns throughout the gay muny durg his very first days the Chronicle newsroom. Rumors about a “gay ncer” or ser illns affectg the gay muny quickly reached Shilts, who was always tapped to the latt news the gay muny. Marc Conant, a lol rmatologist, was among the lol health profsnals soundg early alarms of a problem as he began to treat more gay men showg symptoms of a rare sk ncer, Kaposi’s sara.
HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN MP TAK LEAD ON MP 'GUS WHO'S GAY' REALY TV SHOW
” He advised, “The Chronicle wants me to keep generally on top of gay muny issu” and ved Conant to share story ias wh him. The report dited that this sometim-fatal versn of pnmonia was showg up among gay men San Francis and other major ci, pecially Los Angel and New York. The report om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn dited, “The fact that the patients were all homosexuals suggts a nnectn between some aspect of a homosexual liftyle or disease acquired through sexual ntact.
” The same page of the Chronicle that day rried the happy news that the 155 men of the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos were about to embark on their first natnal tour—a group eventually cimated by the ravag of what was to bee the AIDS epimic. Perlman said Shilts dited an tert reportg on the emergg story durg his first days on the job: “I thk he was terted almost as soon as he got here bee he already knew that many of his iends the Castro were g down wh very strange and very rare forms of pnmonia, and what even he himself and his iends would refer to at the time as ‘the gay ncer.
’” Perlman noted that while he may have been the first to wre about what beme known as AIDS June 1981, Shilts “was the first reporter that I know of who uld see that this was not simply gog to be a gay disease....
A GAY RSIAN, EXILED IRELAND
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It's hard to fathom what was gog on anchor Cynthia Izaguirre's md when she announced that a man had sled Evert spe the fact that he was gay, then rrected herself to note, "He's bld. NBC Out shows feature stori, origal vios and other unique ntent about, and of tert to, the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny.