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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November 16, 2024

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) THE BUCKEYE FLAME, based outside Cleveland, Ohio, announced a matching fundraising campaign. Through the end of the year, every dollar up to $15,000 donated will be matched by NEWSMATCH, […]

Editors and publishers offer sadness and hope after Trump win

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November 16, 2024

by Joe Siegel and Fred Kuhr Shock waves rippled throughout the nation as Donald Trump won a second term as president on November 5, defeating Kamala Harris, who would have been the first female to lead the United States. Reaction from LGBTQ […]

DNC ad campaign targeted LGBTQ media for first time

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November 16, 2024

by Fred Kuhr In its quest to elect Kamala Harris to the presidency, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for the first time invested in an advertising campaign dedicated entirely to LGBTQ publications in large metropolitan areas and certain battleground states. The DNC […]

Blocked Harris endorsement by Bezos’ Washington Post criticized

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November 16, 2024

by Joe Siegel Following pressure from billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post editorial board decided not to endorse Kamala Harris for president just days before the election. Their action resulted in a swift backlash. The paper has lost over 250,000 subscribers […]

New Orleans’ Ambush Magazine returns to print

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November 16, 2024

by Joe Siegel Ambush Magazine, which bills itself as the longest continually published gay magazine in the Deep South, has resumed publishing a print edition after a nearly four year hiatus. The New Orleans-based publication, which debuted in 1982, had stopped printing […]

Watermark founder reflects on 30th anniversary

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November 16, 2024

by Tom Dyer (Tom Dyer is the founder and former publisher of Watermark, based in Orlando, Fla. The following op-ed appeared in the newspaper’s 30th anniversary edition on September 5, 2024. The piece is reprinted here with permission.) When I first envisioned […]