Month: January 2014
Boston Spirit Magazine’s coverage goes daily with new web site
by Chuck Colbert A Boston-based LGBT publication has a new web presence, one that makes bimonthly Boston Spirit Magazine more dynamic with day-to-day relevancy for its readers. There are two major differences to the new site, said publisher David Zimmerman, both having […]
Windy City Times publisher creates new board game that’s so gay
by Chuck Colbert The indefatigable publisher and executive editor of Chicago’s Windy City Times is at it again. This time, when Tracy Baim is not organizing a march of the Illinois state capital in support of same-sex marriage or publishing books on […]
Bay Area Reporter expands its repertoire of kink with new columnist
by Chuck Colbert The leading LGBT weekly newspaper in San Francisco has a kinky new hire. Bay Area Reporter’s BARtab Editor Jim Provenzano recently announced the venerable publication would take on a new leather columnist. Race Bannon will replace outgoing leather columnist […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know at editor@presspassq.com.) THOMAS BASGIL JR., editor of Trenton, N.J.-based OUT IN JERSEY magazine, stepped down after the October-November 2013 issue. He was replaced by the publication’s first female editor SAM MARTINO in December 2013. […]
TOP STORY: POZ founder Sean Strub pens new book on AIDS epidemic
Talks with Press Pass Q about “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival” by Chuck Colbert The AIDS epidemic is not over for the LGBT community, even as AIDS activism and media coverage have waned. That point, a pressing […]
SIDEBAR: Strub says safer-sex messaging is more complicated than we think
by Chuck Colbert While Sean Strub’s confessional and historical memoir “Body Counts” raises awareness and prompts important questions about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment for men who have sex with men (MSM) and the larger LGBT community, one thing seems absolutely clear: Younger […]
SIDEBAR: Strub recounts how he took activism to the streets, and the Church
by Chuck Colbert One need not be Roman Catholic to understand that Sean Strub’s new book “Body Counts” is in no small measure fueled partly by his faith. From the very beginning, Strub calls out the Church and its hierarchical leadership on […]
REVIEW: “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival” by Sean Strub (Scribner, 420 pages, $30)
by Chuck Colbert Sean Strub’s poignant and compelling memoir exemplifies storytelling par excellence. At its heart, “Body Counts” is the telling and remembering of LGBT history, the heroic tales of those on the front lines in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, both the survivors […]
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by Chuck Colbert For a couple of years now, vandals have been striking out against two LGBT weeklies, damaging their distribution boxes and destroying copies of the publications. But in a new development, the Washington, D.C., police have opened an investigation into […]