Nico Lang

Nico Lang

From Hear It From Me by Dale Lykins

March 11, 2025 · 52 min · Season 4 · Episode 3

About this episode

Nico Lang discusses their extensive work in journalism focused on the transgender community and LGBTQ+ rights.

Nico Lang (they/them) is a nonbinary award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience covering the transgender community’s fight for equality. Their work has appeared in major publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Lang is the creator of Queer News Daily and previously served as the deputy editor for Out magazine, the news editor for Them, the LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, and the editor and cofounder of the literary journal In Our Words. Their industry-leading contributions to queer media have resulted in a GLAAD Media Award, 10 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA), and three awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, including the 2023 Online Journalist of the Year. Lang is also the first-ever recipient of the Visibility Award from the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), an honor created to recognize their impactful contributions to reporting on the lives of LGBTQ+ people.

People in this episode

Host: Dale Lykins

Guest: Nico Lang

Topics covered

  • transgender community
  • LGBTQ+ rights
  • journalism
  • queer media
  • equality
  • visibility

Keywords

  • Nico Lang
  • transgender
  • LGBTQ+
  • journalism
  • equality
  • queer media
  • GLAAD
  • visibility award

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times

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