NLGJA Insight

By Anthony Williams
NLGJA InSight staff writer
Canada has granted gays and lesbians more equal rights than the United States for years now, including same-sex marriage and allowing LGBT soldiers to serve openly in the military. Even with those advances, though, experts say homophobia is far from dead and still hurting gay youth.
Kathleen Weil, Quebec’s minister of [...]

By Jared Grigsby
Insight Staff Writer
Imagine that after years of hiding your sexuality from everyone you know, it was demanded that you prove yourself gay to government authorities to begin a new life in a new country. Gay refugees seeking asylum in Canada to escape persecution by their home governments are asked to do just that [...]

What happens to the movement post-Prop 8? Have grassroots online organizers overtaken brick-and-mortar gay rights organizations? Who sets the agenda, and what is it? Those on the front lines will debate how the Internet age has affected the LGBT movement.

Even though some familiar faces are noticeably absent at this year’s convention, journalists are still attending for the first time, and there’s hope next year’s anniversary in San Francisco will be a better picture

A stripped-down convention, increased emphasis on member donations and the beginnings of a fundraising strategy are some of the ideas the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association are implementing in its push forward.