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Three months ago the leading topic was “debt.” (Source)

“I’ve never shared that I’m gay on-air, even though I’ve been out to my family, friends and co-workers for years. In fact, an old boyfriend – now best friend – has always given me a hard time about not doing so. But for the same reason that Zach decided to come out, I too, no longer wanted to hide this …

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Click over for the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association’s interactive national LGBT media map, which shows news-oriented publications and websites by state. A lot of states are blank and the NGLJA invites your input if you know of unlisted titles. (Via – Queerty)

Yesterday’s entry: “blend together.” You get the idea.

Eagle-eyed JMG readers have picked up that Orlando’s WFTV-ABC has edited their original story about public school teacher Jerry Buell. The station’s earlier claim that the KKK had threatened to picket the Lake County School Board has vanished. As WFTV was the source for several JMG posts on that issue and since no other news outlet appears to be making …

The National Organization of Women has come to the defense of Michele Bachmann. NOW, an organization that has received some criticism for its deafening silence when prominent conservative women like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are lampooned in the national press, has come out strongly against the depiction of Rep. Bachmann as the “Queen of Rage.” “Who has ever called …

The best line from Mediaite’s story on the controversy: “Newsweek subscribers, upon receiving this issue, will probably scratch their heads trying to remember when they signed up for a trial subscription to It Puts The Lotion In The Basket Weekly.”

Beginning today, Al Jazeera will broadcast (in English) on NYC’s Time-Warner Cable channel 92. Gothamist reports that this is the network’s “first distribution on any major cable or satellite system in the United States.” (The NYT points out that the network is also currently subleasing space on a DC cable system.)

Shultz has a field day!

“Once a greatly feared investigative reporter, Brian Ross has been reduced to recycling left-wing material from the homosexual lobby. But the pathetic hit job he narrated on Monday’s ABC Nightline show on GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has backfired in a big way. The charge was that the Bachmann family counseling service engages in terrible things by teaching homosexuals how …

(Via – Newsweek)

The reliably yellow journalists at the New York Post have outraged AIDS activists with a front-page claim that the hotel maid at the center of an rape scandal lives in subsidized public housing for HIV patients. The Post darkly warns that alleged rapist and International Monetary Fund head Dominque Strauss-Kahn now “has more to worry about” than a lengthy prison …

CNN anchor Don Lemon has come out. Lemon made the revelation in his coming book, Transparent. Mr. Lemon has not made a secret of his sexual orientation in his work life; many of his CNN co-workers and managers have long been aware that he is gay. But he still acknowledged that going public in his book carries certain risks. “I’m …

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has published a strongly-worded editorial denouncing the campaign to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to a public vote. Opponents of marriage equity say a constitutional amendment is a necessary backstop that would prevent the courts from overturning existing law. In reality, enshrining this form of bigotry in the state’s premier governing document would be a …

Trump attended as the guest of the Washington Post.

“I’m sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they’re doing what they’re doing, but I do think that if you’re gay you have a responsibility to come out.” – Rachel Maddow, in a profile by the UK’s Guardian. Whoever could she be talking about?

During Friday’s celebration in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, CBC News and 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan got separated from her camera crew and was beaten and sexually assaulted by protesters. The attack reportedly happened moments after the photo in this post was taken. “A dangerous element” in the crowd surrounded Logan and her crew, said CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco. “It was …