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January 17, 2013
Head of US gay journalists group dies

Michael Triplett had been president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association since last summer

The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) on Thursday (17 January) announced that its president, Michael Triplett, has died after a battle with cancer.

Triplett, 48, was elected president of the group just last summer. But he had been a member of its leadership team for several years, first as a Washington, DC chapter board member and president and then as a national board member and vice president for print.

January 14, 2013
Calls for Burchill to be sacked over 'disgusting' anti-trans rant

Former equalities minister Lynne Featherstone calls for Julie Burchill and Observer editor to be fired over transphobic article

Former equalities minister Lynne Featherstone has called for Observer editor John Mulholland and writer Julie Burchill to be sacked following the publication of a transphobic column.

'Julie Burchill rant against transgender community is absolutely disgusting – a bigoted vomit for which the Observer should sack her', tweeted the International Development Minister.

After her initial comment, the Liberal Democrat MP tweeted: 'If this was a different group I think there would be even more outrage sadly'.

September 12, 2012
'Obama is closet gay' claims right wing website

Anti-Obama news website WND launches personal attack on president, running story claiming the president was a regular in Chicago's gay bar and bathhouse scene

Barack Obama hid his 'gay life' to become president, claims a story on a right wing US news website.

Speaking to World Net Daily (WND), gay Christian conservative Kevin DuJan says Obama was a regular at gay bars and bathhouses in Chicago.

DuJan, who lived in the city while Obama was state senator there, said the Democrat president was well known on the gay scene.

May 5, 2012
Gay student profile in high school yearbook outrages community

Pro-gay article outrages small Tennessee community, with a school board member calling for sacking and police investigation

A Tennessee high school journalism teacher has outraged the community after publishing a pro-gay article of a graduating student in the yearbook.

The article called ‘It’s OK to be Gay’, written by an anonymous student staff writer of Lenoir City High School, profiles the experiences of American gay student Zac Mitchell.

April 19, 2012
OUT Magazine lays off entire editorial staff

Editor says sister publication to The Advocate will continue under new arrangement

The entire editorial staff of Out Magazine is being laid off but some may be hired back under a new business arrangement for the monthly gay lifestyle publication, editor Aaron Hicklin said Wednesday (18 April).

The US-based magazine is the sister publication to The Advocate and is owned by Here Media which bought the titles in 2008. Here Media has struck a deal with Hicklin to continue running the magazine under a new company he has founded called Grand Editorial.