The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has been around for some time now, and it has as its mission the following:
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is 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.
A blog that I’ve recently begun following today reported on “Monitoring Coverage of LGBT Issues in the Media,” and so I was prepared for a piece about GLAAD. But then, with no mention of GLAAD or its blog in the entire post, Michael Jones goes on to describe a new project of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, RE:ACT, the NLGJA blog, which is “a forum to discuss topics related to fair and accurate coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues.”
I mean, don’t get me wrong, we can always use more than one viewpoint on a project, but I am curious about whether there is some rift between the two groups, between Jones and GLAAD, or if NLGJA just decided that they didn’t have a blog and should.
In any event, it would appear that there are now two options for following questions about fair and accurate reporting on LGBT issues in the media.
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Chris Geidner is the senior political writer at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found
You would think two organizations with a such a strong common purpose would joing forces more than they have.