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GRAB MAGAZINE, based in Chicago, entered its 16th year of publication with its January 21, 2025, issue.

NEWS IS OUT, a collaborative of several LGBTQ publications, launched its LGBTQ+ WELLNESS CONNECTION newsletter, a free monthly resource on LGBTQ health. To subscribe, go to https://newsisout.com/sign-up-for-our-newsletter/

LESBIAN HOME JOURNAL, which hasn’t been published since its first two issues in 1975, is seeking submissions of women’s writing for its upcoming third issue. The venture was launched by MARIDEE BONADEA, who was a contributor to the original issues. Email submissions can be made to maridee_bondadee@yahoo.com or Maridee BonaDea, PO Box 1123, Vashon, WA, 98070.

THE LOS ANGELES BLADE celebrated its eighth anniversary in its March 24, 2025, issue.

TROY MASTERS, the LGBTQ media pioneer who passed away December 11, 2024, at the age of 63, was honored on March 30, 2025, at the LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER in New York City. Masters was the founding publisher of the LOS ANGELES BLADE as well as founder of GAY CITY NEWS in New York City.

OUTSFL MAGAZINE, based in Wilton Manors, Fla., entered its third year of publication with its February/March 2025 issue.

FELICE PICANO, considered a champion of gay literature, passed away March 19, 2025, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. The cause of death was complications of lymphoma.   He was 81. Picano wrote 19 novels and short story collections as well as eight memoirs, most famously “Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children” in 1985. He also co-wrote “The New Joy of Gay Sex” in 1992.

SGN (SEATTLE GAY NEWS) entered its 53rd year of publication with its January 2025 issue. The newspaper was also the subject of an exhibit at Bellingham’s Western Washington University called “Seattle Gay News Celebrates 50!” The exhibit ran from January 13 to February 20, 2025. The same exhibit ran at the Seattle Public Library’s main branch last summer.

TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
Volume 27
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