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Pride

Community mural at Capital Pride Festival, along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, June 11, 2023. Photo by Chris Rudisill

Be Proud of Your Reporting

Pride is a great time to build up long-term relationships with sources in the queer community. One of the best ways to do that is to earn trust by prominently including lots of LGBTQ+ voices in your reporting and letting them tell their own stories.

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A drag brunch in Sanford, N.C. was disrupted by the extremist group the Proud Boys in October as captured here by photojournalist Anthony Crider, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

Tipsheet: Reporting on Pride in Light of Threats

Participating in events like Pride actually makes LGBTQ+ people and their allies safer, even though the events themselves can potentially be targets of protest, harassment, intimidation or attack.

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How-tos

Photos by Zackary Drucker and Alyza Enriquez | The Gender Spectrum Collection

Finding the job (story)

For decades, compared with the general population, LGBTQ+ people have faced increased risk of experiencing economic insecurities.

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Labor


(queer)alize is part of OUTlook: Finding Solutions for LGBTQ Labor and Workplace Equality. It is a project of artstreet, in partnership with QnotesCarolinas.com. The project is supported by the Solutions Journalism Network.

Solutions Journalism provides rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. We believe it can be a tool in building equity in both local news and in communities.

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New ways to think about diversity in reporting