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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December 13, 2024

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) THE BUCKEYE FLAME, based in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, reached 105% of its year-end fundraising goal, earning $36,000 through donations and matching grants. THE CURVE FOUNDATION, publisher of CURVE MAGAZINE, […]

LGBTQ editors and publishers remain defiant after Trump win

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December 13, 2024

by Joe Siegel Many in the LGBTQ community were shocked and saddened by Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the November 5 presidential election. Fears of further attacks on LGBTQ rights as well as a crackdown on press freedoms have been […]

Outlets moving away from Twitter/X and toward Bluesky

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December 13, 2024

by Joe Siegel In the last month, Elon Musk’s Twitter/X has seen a massive departure of users to rival social media platform Bluesky, including LGBTQ journalists and media outlets. Erin Reed, an independent journalist covering trans rights issues on Substack, told NBC […]

Georgia Voice sold, will become monthly

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December 13, 2024

by Joe Siegel Beginning in January, Atlanta-based Georgia Voice will have a whole new look — and fewer print issues. The publication has been sold to “hyperlocal” news publisher Rough Draft Atlanta and will begin publishing under Rough Draft’s website, where its […]

SGN’s “new era” has begun

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December 13, 2024

by Fred Kuhr SGN, formerly known as Seattle Gay News, has had a lot of ups and downs over the past few years. Longtime editor and publisher George Bakan, a fixture in Seattle’s LGBTQ community, led the newspaper from 1983 until his […]

Lavender’s new managing editor says hello

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December 13, 2024

by Noah Mitchell (Noah Mitchell is the managing editor of Lavender Magazine, based in Edina, Minn., just outside Minneapolis. The following editorial appeared in the magazine’s August 22, 2024, issue and is reprinted below with permission.) Hello, Lavender Magazine! I’m Noah Mitchell, […]