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1. July 2, 2012 01:44 PM

   Anderson Cooper (finally) exits the closet [updated]

   The CNN anchor announces he's gay in a published email to Andrew Sullivan

   By Peter Sterne

   Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation has been something of an open secret for some time. But Monday morning, he finally came out publicly. The news broke shortly after 11 a.m., when Cooper’s old friend Andrew Sullivan, who has been out for decades, posted an email from Cooper on his blog at The Daily Beast. In the email, Cooper declares: The fact...

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2. July 27, 2012 06:50 AM

   Coming out posthumously

   Sally Ride and questions of how to memorialize semi-closeted public figures

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. In the first obituaries about former astronaut Sally Ride, the news was easy to miss - buried at the end of the stories, after many hundreds of words about her achievements, was a variation of this sentence: “Dr. Ride is survived by her partner of...

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3. July 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Covering the ‘ex-gay’ movement

   An influential organization changed its stance on reparative therapy. What will this mean for media coverage?

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her new column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Recently Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, an umbrella group ministering to Christians who want to suppress their gay feelings, made a startling announcement: There is no cure for homosexuality. Reparative therapy doesn’t work. This may not seem earth shattering. After all, most people...

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4. May 23, 2012 05:20 PM

   Reparative journalism

   Reporter sinks a controversial paper on “ex-gay” therapy

   By Curtis Brainard

   It’s not often that a journalist convinces a prominent scientist to recant a controversial study that he has tenaciously defended for 11 years, but that’s just what Gabriel Arana did last month. While working on an article for The American Prospect about his experience undergoing so-called sexual reorientation, or reparative therapy, as a teenager in the late 1990s, Arana interviewed...

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5. August 10, 2012 04:30 PM

   Sex and sensationalism

   Researchers accuse press of ‘licentious’ coverage of animal studies

   By Curtis Brainard

   “The media loves to sensationalize research” on same-sex sexual behavior among animals, according to an analysis published this week in the journal Nature. A pair of biologists from Australia and the UK surveyed 48 newspaper, magazine, and online articles written about 11 scientific papers on the subject, and concluded that journalists have a tendency to produce tawdry coverage that is...

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