TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

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AFTERELLEN, the women’s-focused online community, has been acquired by EVOLVE MEDIA, leaving its parent company VIACOM. Evolve Media also owns TOTALLYHER, another LGBT female-focused site.

FRONTIERS MEDIA, based in Los Angeles, will sponsor its second edition of Hitched, the newspaper’s gay and lesbian wedding event to be held on November 9, 2014.

Fred Kuhr

FRED KUHR celebrated his eighth anniversary as editor of PRESS PASS Q in September 2014.

LAMBDA WEEKLY, a weekly LGBT talk show on 89.3 KNON-FM in Dallas with DAVID TAFFET, LERONE LANDIS and THE LATE PATTI FINK, was named Best Radio Talk Show in Dallas by the Dallas Observer. (And The Late Patti Fink isn’t dead, just late).

M.E. PUBLICATIONS, owner of New York City-based ODYSSEY MAGAZINE, has launched a Florida monthly edition of Odyssey. The publication of its first issue will coincide with Halloween. Also, the company’s Los Angeles and Toronto editions are now available digitally.

THE NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE is the new name of the NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE, the group announced on October 8, 2014.

TAGG MAGAZINE, a lesbian-focused magazine based in Washington, D.C., published its second anniversary issue in September/October 2014.

THE WILTON MANORS GAZETTE was launched by the SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS as a supplement in its August 8, 2014, issue. Meant as a hometown community newspaper, the Gazette will eventually be a stand-alone publication.

Bob Witeck

WINDY CITY TIMES, based in Chicago, was a sponsor of the Work! Chicago LGBTQ Youth Job Fair on October 22, 2014. The event was a followup to the newspaper’s LGBTQ Homeless Youth Summit in May 2014.

BOB WITECK, president of public relations firm WITECK COMMUNICATIONS and a longtime LGBT rights activist, married his longtime partner BOB CONNELLY JR., a senior researcher for the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL and an adjunct professor at American University, on October 1, 2014, in Washington, D.C. They have been together for 20 years.

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

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April 14, 2024

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) THE CURVE FOUNDATION and NLGJA: THE ASSOCIATION OF LGBTQ+ JOURNALISTS announced that the 2024 CURVE AWARD FOR EMERGING JOURNALISTS is open for submissions. The deadline to apply is April […]

Prez race raises question of objectivity in journalism

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April 14, 2024

by Joe Siegel A recent poll from GLAAD found that 94 percent of LGBTQ Americans are motivated to vote, with those residing in seven swing states preferring President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump by a margin of 57 points. “LGBTQ […]

Tagg Magazine founder reflects as she passes the torch

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April 14, 2024

by Joe Siegel Eboné Bell remembers how Tagg Magazine, which she launched in 2012, struggled to survive because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We were a hair away from closing,” Bell said, noting the impact was particularly hard on Black-owned businesses. In comparison, […]

South Florida gets new women’s magazine Skirt

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April 14, 2024

by Joe Siegel Skirt South Florida, a new lifestyle and culture magazine aimed at the lesbian community, recently launched a print edition with its February 2024 issue. The women-owned and operated publication is based in Fort Lauderdale. “When I moved to South […]

Former Between The Lines publishers reflect on cancer journey, retirement

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April 14, 2024

by Ellen Shanna Knoppow (The following piece appeared in the January 11, 2024, edition of Between The Lines, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is reprinted below with permission.) Ringing the bell after her final chemotherapy infusion was a long- anticipated moment […]

Wisconsin’s Our Lives publishes 100th issue

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April 14, 2024

by Patrick Farabaugh (Patrick Farabaugh is the founder and publisher of Our Lives, based in Madison, Wisc. The following Publisher’s Note was published in the magazine’s January/February 2024 issue and is reprinted below with permission.) You’re holding our 100th issue. As the […]