Lisa Bennett is an award-winning journalist, author, speaker, facilitator, and coach. She has written or contributed to 11 books, including Ecoliterate with emotional intelligence expert Daniel Goleman. A former Harvard University fellow and Ashoka Changemakers Thought Leader, she has worked with CEOs, university presidents, and organizations, including the American Psychological Association, Human Rights Campaign, MacArthur Award-winning FrameWorks Institute, Protect Our Winters, and Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Perpetuation of Prejudice in Reporting on Gays and Lesbians — Time and Newsweek: The First Fifty Years
January 1, 1998
A paper by Lisa Bennett, spring 1998 fellow, argues that although media coverage of gays and lesbians has improved in recent decades, coverage in the 1990s continued to include distorted and negative allegations. When journalists first came to the story of homosexuality at the end of World War II, the stigma surrounding the subject was
