365Gay.com - daily online news
source with gay news and current affairs from around the world. Based in
Toronto, Canada.
http://365Gay.com
bloomingOUT / WFHB Bloomington
Community Radio: a community radio weekly lgbtiq radio/podcast radio
show hosted by Helen Harrell & Sean Lemieux,
Carol Fischer, producer. bloomingOUT can be heard
every Thursday from 6:00-7:00pm EST on 91.3FM - 98.1FM - 100.7FM -
106.3FM or on the web. Address: 108 W. 4th St., Bloomington, IN 47402;
Cell: 812-325-7870; Email:
bloomingout@wfhb.org; To download the latest show or podcast -
website:
http://wfhb.org/bloomingout/
The Commercial Closet - dedicated
to charting the evolving worldwide portrayals of the LGBT community in
one of the most powerful cultural media of our time – mainstream
advertising. The project proactively reaches out to ad agencies,
corporations and the world-at-large to create change through reflection
on its collection.
http://www.commercialcloset.org/
Note - GLSEN' s
The Commercial Closet Student Viewing Guide
- pdf file linked from
http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/958.html
introduces educators and students to basic media literacy concepts
and ads from The Commercial Closet's online collection, and helps
them to use those tools in analyzing advertising that depicts LGBT
people and issues. There are over 100 ads representing gay youth on
the Commercial Closet's site here:
http://www.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/themes.html?theme=4
GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation) -
dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive
representation of people and events in the media as a means of
eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and
sexual orientation.
http://www.glaad.org/
How Youth Media Can
Help Combat Homophobia Among American Teenagers: A study by
Rodger Streitmatter and Van M. Cagle;
from GLAAD (the Gay Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation).
http://www.glaad.org/documents/csms/YouthReport.pdf
(pdf format) which
Includes:
- Young readers prefer
stories that are written by a young gay person, followed by those
written by someone close to a gay person, such as a gay man’s
teenage sister, over those written in a third person, more
journalistic style.
- Young readers did
NOT necessarily prefer articles about gay people that were short and
easy to read ... they could handle complexity!
- Young readers and TV
viewers did NOT have more positive reactions to gay people they
perceive to be physically attractive ... they could handle the
ordinary, non-model!
- Young readers did
NOT prefer articles about gender-normative LGBT people ... they
could handle gender transgression!
- Young readers did
NOT have the most positive reactions to stories of LGBT people
surviving bigotry ... they don't need to see LGBT peers as victims!
- Young readers relate
best to courage and honesty and those characteristics trump their
perceptions of less attractiveness or gender-nonconformity.
- "Today’s young
television viewers are generally supportive of gay and lesbian
rights. They do not consider homosexuality to be morally wrong but
see it as a fully acceptable way of life. They believe that gay
people should be allowed to live openly and without fear of
prejudice or mistreatment."
- "Young television
viewers are more comfortable with a gay or lesbian character (or
real gay person, in the case of “The Real World”) if those viewers
perceive that person as having struggled to accept his or her
sexuality."
- Contrary to some
adults' expectations, young TV viewers felt comfortable not only
with dialogue about being gay but ALSO with physical contact
(hugging, hand-holding, kisses).
Media Coverage of Transgendered and
Transsexual People - Recommendations from
GEA
for the proper coverage of transgender/transsexual news stories.
http://www.gender.org/resources/dge/gea01007.pdf
(pdf format)
The National Lesbian and Gay
Journalists Association
(
NLGJA)
- an organization of journalists,
online media professionals, and students that works from within the
journalism industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender issues. NLGJA opposes workplace bias
against all minorities and provides professional development for its
members.
http://www.nlgja.org/
Talking About -
GLAAD's awesome series (for the media and
the rest of us) including Talking About Suicide and LGBT
Populations Learn how not to inadvertently encourage copy-cat suicide
attempts and how to explain the problem of hate crimes. All these
short, downloadable pamphlets are VERY useful for LGBTQ folks and
allies who are about to give an interview to the press. See them all
here:
http://www.glaad.org/talkingabout
