NLGJA Website - Kylee Gwartney

I chose the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (nlgja.com). The site is a helpful tool for beginning journalists, or any journalist, that wants to know how to cover LGBT people with sensitivity. The website has a "Stylebook Supplement" containing LGBT terminology and how to use it correctly. It also has a "Journalists Toolbox" that teaches journalists how to provide accurate and fair coverage of their community. The website also contains tools for educators on how to teach students about being prepared to cover LGBT news. I believe this website is a helpful resource for writers in any field. Lesbians and gays are becoming increasingly accepted in our community, which is a wonderful thing, and chances are we will have to do stories that cover LGBT people. Entertainment writers for example, will probably at some point in their careers do a story on the most famous lesbian couple in the world, Ellen and her wife Portia. It's important to remember that diversity is not only race and gender, but also sexual orientation. We need to be able to represent members of diverse communities in a non-judgmental light. If we study websites like this, we can be almost certain we won't make the mistake of saying the wrong thing.