Publications - Articles Published in Non-Refereed Publications
“2003: A Red-Letter Year for Gays on TV,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, January 2004
“In American Wedding, Sex Rules,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, September 2003
“Sex and the City: Educational TV at Its Best,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, September 2003
“A Great Week for Gay TV Fans,” Gay Today
on-line news journal, August 2003
“Three Cheers for the Historians,” Gay Today
on-line news journal, July 2003
“‘Boy Meets Boy’: Unreality on Reality TV,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, July 2003
“Farewell to Jack McPhee: Gay Reality for American Teens,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, June 2003
“Madonna Educates a Generation about AIDS,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, April 2003
“Real Progress Is in the Media,” lead editorial
in Washington Blade, March 2003
“Two Unlikely Forces in the Battle against Homophobia:
MTV and Seventeen Magazine,” New York Blade News,
March 2003
“MTV and Seventeen: Combating Harassment of Gay Teens,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, March 2003
“Combating Harassment of Gay Teens—MTV and Seventeen
Magazine,” Southern Voice (Atlanta), February 2003
“Full-Frontal Male Nudity: History Is Made,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, February 2003
“The Biggest Gay/Lesbian News Stories of 2002: A Lot to
Cheer About,” Gay Today on-line news journal, January
2003
“TV as Gay Rights Pioneer: Remembering ‘All in the
Family,’” Gay Today on-line news journal,
October 2002
“The New York Times and Its Historic Shift: The
‘Backstory,” Gay Today on-line news journal,
August 2002
“A Heinous Cliché Raises Its Ugly Head,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, July 2002
“Paying Homage to an Unlikely Porn Icon,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, June 2002
“‘Real World’ Depicts the Real Gay World,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, May 2002
“Sex and the Media: Discomfiting Bedfellows,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, April 2002
Up from Invisibility book review, Gay Today
on-line news journal, March 2002
“‘A Beautiful Mind’: A Wonderful Film, A Missed
Opportunity,” Gay Today on-line news journal, February
2002
Book review of Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian
Broadcasting, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,
Winter 2001
“Gay Magazines as Public Health Guides,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, December 2001
“‘Queer as Folk’: Gay Public Health Pioneer,”
Gay Today on-line news journal, December 2001
“Sexual Orientation and TV News,” Gay Today
on-line news journal, October 2001
“A Tale of Two Gay Heroes, with a Hopeful Ending,”
New York Blade News October 2001
“A Tale of Two Gay Heroes, with a Hopeful Ending,”
Southern Voice (Atlanta), October 2001
“A Tale of Two Gay Heroes, with a Hopeful Ending,”
Washington Blade, October 2001
Queer Airwaves book review, Gay Today on-line
news journal, October 2001
“Two Gay Heroes; Two Different Eras,” Gay Today
on-line news journal, September 2001
“Gays on TV: Crossing a New Threshold,” Gay
Today on-line news journal, September 2001
“The Media History Classroom: A Forum for Diversity Issues”
in Enriching the Race, Ethnicity, and Media Class by Adding
Historical Context (Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication, November 1999), Paula M. Poindexter, ed.
“The Advocate” in Gay Histories and Cultures:
An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing, 2000), George E. Haggerty,
ed.
“Gay and Lesbian Press” in Gay Histories and
Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing, 2000), George
E. Haggerty, ed.
“ONE Magazine” in Gay Histories and
Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing, 2000), George
E. Haggerty, ed.
“Elizabeth Read, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Financial Adviser,”
in The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press,
2001), Maurine Beasley, ed.
“Out after Death,” The Advocate, October
13, 1998
“Theodore Roosevelt and the Press” in the History
of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, 1998), Margaret A. Blanchard, ed.
“The Gay and Lesbian Press” in the History of
the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, 1998), Margaret A. Blanchard, ed.
“Love Letters to Eleanor,” George magazine,
September 1998
“Bringing Research into the Classroom,” Clio
Among the Media (History Division of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), Summer 1997
“Education: The Loser in Chinese Economic Reform,”
Jiefang Daily (Shanghai, China), November 1994
“Foreign Expert Says University Students Lose as Free
Market Economy Evolves,” Wen Hui Daily (Shanghai,
China), November 1994
“Free Market Economy at What Price?,” Wen Hui
Daily (Shanghai, China), November 1994
Book review of Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History
of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, in Newsletter of Committee
on Gay and Lesbian, American Historical Association, Fall
1994
“American Women Journalists Raise Their Voice,”
China Reading Weekly (Beijing, China), October 1994
Book review of A Reference Guide to Afro-American Publications
and Editors, 1827-1946, in American Journalism,
Summer 1994
“Covering the Gay Community: Where do we go from here?,”
People & Places (Newspaper Association of America),
Fall 1993
“The Homosexual Citizen: Washington’s First
Gay Publication,” Program for Creative Self-Development
Newsletter, Spring 1993
“John H. Murphy,” in American Newspaper Publishers,
1951-90, volume of the Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Gale Research Publishers, 1993
“Alice Allison Dunnigan,” in Black Women in
America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Carlson Publishing,
1993
“Ethel L. Payne,” in Black Women in America:
An Historical Encyclopedia, Carlson Publishing, 1993
“William Monroe Trotter,” article in American
National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1993
“Skits create an interactive classroom,” Clio
Among the Media (History Division of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), April 1993
“Debates as a classroom teaching technique,” Clio
Among the Media (History Division of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), November 1992
“Those Sensational Soviets: Glasnost brings a free and
gaudy press to the Soviet Union,” The Quill, January/February
1992
“Soviet Women Journalists—Post Coup,” Newswire,
International Women's Media Foundation Newsletter, October 1991
“American-Soviet Women Journalists,” Editor
& Publisher, August 1991
“Interpreting a Free Press for Soviet Students,”
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 1991
“Inside the Soviet Classroom,” Clio Among the
Media (History Division of the Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication), Summer 1991
“Two Different Worlds: A Comparison of the Similarities
and Differences in the Experiences of American and Soviet Women
Journalists,” Soviet Woman magazine, June 1991
“Good Morning, Mister Rodger,” Moscow State
University News, May 1991
“American Journalism Professor’s Views on the Press,”
Neva Times (St. Petersburg, Russia), March 1991
Book review of Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric
and the Genres of Government, American Journalism, Autumn
1990
“How Media Shape History,” Clio Among the Media
(History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication), Autumn 1990
“Motivations of High School Journalism Students,”
Connection (Secondary Education Division of the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), Summer 1990
“Washington Gay Leaders Seek Changes at the Post,”
Alternatives: Gays & Lesbians in the Newsroom, American
Society of Newspaper Editors, April 1990
Book review of An Eye-Witness to History, Journalism
Quarterly, Winter 1989
“Closing the Gate on Talent,” The Quill,
October 1989
“AIDS Coverage: Rewriting the Rules,” Feed/Back:
California Journalism Review, Spring 1986
AIDS: It’s just a matter of time . . .,” The
Quill, May 1984
“Alexandria Gazette: A Profile of the Nation’s
Oldest Newspaper,” Publishers’ Auxiliary,
January 1984
Book review of The Politics of Crisis Reporting, Newspaper
Research Journal, Fall 1982
“A National Hero’s Moment in the News Spotlight,”
Washington Journalism Review, May 1982
Book review of Writing and Reporting the News,
Newspaper Research Journal, May 1980
