LGBT Journos To Meet In DC

This weekend I'll be in DC where the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association will host the 2014 meeting of LGBT media folks. The event is sponsored by the Haas Jr. Fund, a social welfare group founded 51 years ago by the then-chairman of Levi Strauss and his wife. This is the fifth annual Haas event for LGBT media, which has previously been held in NYC, San Francisco, Houston, and Philadelphia. MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell will be the keynote speaker on Friday night. We've got quite a full day on Saturday - a very early White House visit then all day meetings - but we'll be doing a meetup at the Green Lantern at 9:30PM.  As always, I invite the JMG community to come and sip delicate cocktails with us. Yeah. There may have been some rampant reader-on-reader hookups at past events (ahem, Houston), but I make no promises.  Check out the attendees at the meetup Facebook page. We will be live-tweeting the meeting topics and presenters' words at #LGBTmedia14.

This Weekend: #LGBTmedia13

This weekend I'll be in Philadelphia to attend the fourth annual Haas Convening, a symposium for LGBT journalists sponsored by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. Organizer Bil Browning gives a preview at Bilerico:

"This year's convening is focusing on coalition building. We'll have presentations on immigration reform, international issues, the aging queer community, transgender-specific issues, and the labor movement. Philadelphia Mayor Nutter will address the group during lunch on Saturday while Cleve Jones and David Mixner will do a Q&A session at Friday night's reception and dinner."

Writers from most of the nation's top LGBT news sites and print publications will attend. Some of the folks whose names you might know well: Rex Wockner, Chris Geidner, Jeremy Hooper, David Badash, Ann Northrop, Andy Humm, Paul Schindler, Rod McCullom, Mike Rogers. Hit the link for a full list of attendees.

In previous years the convention was held in New York City, San Francisco, and Houston. We held great JMG reader meet-ups in all three cities and tomorrow night you're welcome to join us all at Tavern On Camac at 9PM.  Come out and meet the writers behind all your favorite news outlets. And follow the goings-on all weekend via the Twitter hashtag #LGBTmedia13.  I've been advised that everything we say to everybody is "on the record." So I better watch my potty mouth.