TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) BAY AREA REPORTER, based in San Francisco, announced that its 50th anniversary issue will be published on April 1, 2021. GOGUIDE, based in Iowa City, Iowa, unveiled its new […]

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Media impacted by cancellation of in-person Prides, for second year

by Joe Siegel For the second year in a row, fears of COVID-19 have prompted cancellations of Pride festivals in major American cities including Seattle and Washington, D.C. A story which appeared in San Francisco’s Bay Area Reporter last month reported that […]

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Texas publications endure winter freeze

by Joe Siegel The brutally cold winter weather in Texas last month resulted in massive power outages and several deaths. The state’s LGBTQ publications managed to endure, despite the overwhelming disruption. Tammye Nash, managing editor of Dallas Voice, reported on the crisis […]

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Rehoboth Beach “excited” to be part of Biden’s Delaware

by Fred Kuhr While much of the LGBTQ community breathed a sigh of relief once now-President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the most recent election, it’s not often that an entire LGBTQ resort town gets excited about a presidential election. […]

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Interviews with George Bakan, Seattle Gay News publisher, released

by Fred Kuhr After George Bakan, the longtime publisher of Seattle Gay News, passed away last June at the age of 78, remembrances poured in. So much so that the newspaper dedicated two issues to memorializing him. Nine months later, another way […]

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Saying so long is never easy, especially after 20-plus years

by Lainey Millen(Lainey Millen is the outgoing associate editor and production/art director of QNotes, based in Charlotte, N.C. The following piece was published on January 22, 2021, and is reprinted here with permission.) Do you see it? It’s right there on my […]

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