Month: January 2016
Gay activist, publisher and pioneer Tim Campbell dies
by Chuck Colbert Gay rights activist and LGBT publisher Tim Campbell died December 26, 2015, at a hospice in Houston, Texas, at the age of 76, from esophageal cancer. Campbell was perhaps best known as the publisher of the GLC Voice newspaper […]
Kansas’ Liberty Press gets boost from shuttered alt weekly
by Joe Siegel The Liberty Press, the longest-running LGBT newspaper in Kansas, has been given a boost from a now-defunct publication. F5, Wichita’s weekly alternative newspaper, stopped publishing in July 2015. In November, owner Mike Marlett donated the magazine racks the paper […]
NLGJA stylebook branching out en español
by Chuck Colbert The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s Stylebook has been a resource for countless newsrooms covering the LGBT community. Consequently, the organization is planning an expansion of this resource for those outlets delivering the news in Spanish. As Adam Pawlus, […]
PRESSING QUESTIONS: Gay Calgary
Interview with Publisher Steve Polyak by Joe Siegel Geographic coverage area: Canadian province of Alberta Year founded: 2003 Staff size and breakdown: Full time publisher/editor/sales representative, copy editor, 10 or so freelance writers Physical dimensions of publication: 8” x 10.5” Average page […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: 40 years strong
by Mark Segal (Mark Segal, publisher of Philadelphia Gay News, is the nation’s most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. His memoir “And Then I Danced, Traveling The Road to LGBT Equality” has been number one on Amazon’s LGBT memoir/biography bestsellers list. This column […]
What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com. BAY WINDOWS, based in Boston, entered its 34th year of publication with its December 10, 2015, issue. ALEX COX, a sales representative for Livonia, Mich.-based BETWEEN THE LINES, legally […]