TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) THE BLADE FOUNDATION announced the recipient of an inaugural reporting fellowship focused on covering stories at the intersection of LGBTQ identities and race. The foundation named BRANDIE BLAND, a […]

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Coverage highlights how “red wave became a ripple”

by Joe Siegel With control of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the line in the November 8 election, several highly competitive races drew widespread coverage in LGBTQ media. But with results slowly rolling in, two days after the […]

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Media covers LGBTQ wins and losses

by Joe Siegel While all media were focused on whether or not there would be a red wave, LGBTQ outlets were also looking at our own community’s candidates to see how they would do during what was viewed as one of the […]

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City of Chicago commits to spending ad dollars in minority community media

by Fred Kuhr The City of Chicago is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to supporting minority community media, including LGBTQ media. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is a lesbian, signed an executive order last month designating that […]

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NY’s Gay City News hosts in-person Impact Awards, a first since 2019

by Fred Kuhr After a couple of years of virtual and hybrid events, New York City-based Gay City News (GCN) hosted its first fully in-person Impact Awards event since 2019 on November 9 in Queens. Among award recipients was GCN founding editor […]

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Why our first NLGJA award means so much

by Chris Azzopardi(Chris Azzopardi is the Editorial Director of Pride Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ wire service. He has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has also appeared in […]

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