Month: June 2025
Pride ad spending down due to anti-DEI, fewer int’l tourists
by Joe Siegel As growing numbers of international tourists are shunning visits to the United States due to the Trump administration’s authoritarian immigration crackdowns and rolling back LGBTQ rights, the impact on LGBTQ media organizations has been severe. Several corporations have either […]
Veteran journalist Victoria Brownworth dies
by Joe Siegel Veteran LGBTQ media journalist Victoria Brownworth passed away on May 22, 2025, after a long battle with cancer. She was 69 years old. Brownworth started her career writing for Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) at the age of 17. She […]
Coverage of Pope Leo XIV hopeful, despite past comments
by Joe Siegel LGBTQ media coverage of Pope Leo XIV has been mainly favorable, although some of his past statements have raised some red flags among activists. Leo, a Chicago native previously known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, is the first American as well […]
Troy Masters, founder of Gay City News and LA Blade, memorialized in NYC
by Fred Kuhr Troy Masters may have most recently worked as founding publisher of the Los Angeles Blade, until his death last year, but his work in New York is what brought friends and colleagues together on March 30, 2025, for a […]
Remembering Jody Valley, the Pride Source columnist who gave LGBTQ readers a lifeline
by Chris Azzopardi (Chris Azzopardi is the editorial director of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Pride Source Media Group, which oversees Q Syndicate, Between The Lines newspaper, and PrideSource.com. The following piece originally ran in the February 13, 2025, issue of Between The Lines. […]
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(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) BOSTON SPIRIT MAGAZINE entered its 21st year of publication with its January/February 2025 issue. THE BUCKEYE FLAME, based in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, held its Rainbow Bikes charity spin class […]