News Minute and Queer Chennai Chronicles release media guide for LGBTQIA+ coverage
The guide explains what journalists should keep in mind while reporting on the community.
The digital news platform News Minute has collaborated with the publishing house Queer Chennai Chronicles to draft a guide to help journalists cover the LGBTQIA+ community and its issues sensitively.
The 19-page document, released on June 1, the first day of the Pride Month, defines terms related to sex, gender, sexuality used by the community.
Specifying what reporters must keep in mind while reporting on the community and its issues, the media guide says, “It is imperative for reporters to ask a person’s name and pronouns and use them correctly while quoting the person, writing about them, or speaking about them publicly.”
The representation of the LGBTQIA+ community in the Indian media is often derogatory, ignorant, and lacking in perspective, the guide says, adding that it is intended to be a resource for journalists who want to get the representation of LGBTQIA+ community and their issues right.
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