Month: August 2021
LGBTQ media play role in keeping local communities safe
by Joe Siegel The website safehome.org, which specializes in home protection and personal safety, has released its annual LGBTQ+ State Safety rankings. Among the takeaways from the survey are: * Vermont and California scored the highest for LGBTQ+ safety, while North Dakota […]
Seattle Gay News launches archive project
by Fred Kuhr Longtime Seattle Gay News (SGN) editor and publisher George Bakan, who died unexpectedly last year, was the driving force for much of what happened at the newspaper. And that drive continues today. In fact, his death prompted the push […]
Wisconsin’s Our Lives beset by lumber shortage, vandalism
by Joe Siegel A newspaper can collect the news, but then it needs the paper. So a local lumber shortage has caused headaches for For Our Lives, based in Madison, Wisconsin. “The way our contract has been written is that from the […]
Philly newspaper subpoenas DA in murder investigation of trans activist
by Fred Kuhr Attorneys representing Philadelphia Gay News subpoenaed District Attorney Larry Krasner this past June in order to force him to testify at a court hearing stemming from the mysterious 2002 death of African-American trans activist Nizah Morris. The subpoena asks […]
North Carolina’s qnotes launches Carolinas LGBTQ Journalism Fund to support local writers
by Chris Rudisill(Chris Rudisill is the project manager for the QnotesCarolinas.org Project and is also the Director of the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative. The following piece ran in the May 28, 2021, issue of qnotes and is reprinted here with permission.) In discussing a new […]
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(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com.) GLOSS, based in San Francisco, entered its 19th year of publication with its June 18, 2021, issue. THOMAS E. HORN, former publisher of San Francisco’s BAY AREA REPORTER, was […]