#NLGJA2017 Proud sponsor of ©2017 The Coca-Cola Company. NLGJA 2017 27th National Convention September 7-10, 2017 | Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania www.nlgja.org/2017 2 From the Toolbox: Covering the Pentagon’s Transgender Policy 3 Welcome from NLGJA’s President 5 Welcome from NLGJA’s Executive Director 7 From the Convention Co-Chairs 9 Dateline: DC 11 NLGJA 2017 Board of Directors & Chapters 13 NLGJA Lifetime Members 15 NLGJA LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame 18 NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Awards 21 NLGJA 2018 23 2017 Convention Information 25 Loews Philadelphia Floorplans 27 NLGJA 2017 Convention Sponsors 29 Career & Community Expo & Author’s Café 31 CONNECT: 2017 NLGJA Student Journalism Project 32 CONNECT at 20 34 Convention Schedule At-A-Glance 36 Convention Schedule: Thursday 42 Convention Schedule: Friday 48 Convention Schedule: Saturday 51 Convention Schedule: Sunday 53 2017 Convention Speakers The Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2120 L Street NW | Suite 850 | Washington, DC 20037 (202) 588-9888 |
[email protected] | www.nlgja.org FROM THE TOOLBOX OPEN LETTER: COVERING THE PENTAGON’S TRANSGENDER POLICY NLGJA – The Association of LGBTQ Journalists encourages journalists writing about the change in policy on transgender service members to be fair and accurate in their coverage. If you or someone in your newsroom has questions about language use, NLGJA is available to provide peer-to-peer guidance. Here are a few tips, as well as some information from our “Stylebook on LGBTQ Terminology” that may be helpful in covering transgender individuals: • Referring to “transgender woman” or “transgender man” is acceptable on first reference.