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BAY AREA REPORTER, based in San Francisco, announced the November 7, 2025, installation of a plaque on the city’s Rainbow Honor Walk in honor of founding publisher BOB ROSS, who died in 2003.

BOIMAGAZINE, based in Chicago, announced that its publishing editor MIKE A. MACHARELLO was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame at a November 6, 2025, ceremony held at the Chicago History Museum.

THE BUCKEYE FLAME, based in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, has launched a new program for monthly donors, the Buckeye Flame Fireflies. Membership includes exclusive virtual and non-virtual stickers, quarterly chats with staff, and a discount code for the publication’s merch shop.

THE CURVE FOUNDATION held its latest instalment of the Curve Film Club on November 23, 2025, via Zoom. It was a virtual watch party and Q&A featuring the docuseries “The Lesbian Bar Project” and its creators ERICA ROSE and ELINA STREET in conversation with foundation co-founder and filmmaker JEN RAININ.

THE EQUALITY FORUM, the driving force behind LGBT HISTORY MONTH, is seeking nominees for its 2026 LGBT History Month icons. To submit a nomination, go to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCbDgLA-bNz2gV4HbyqnL4UST1bXnTXdJePxhFuqRADa6AvA/viewform

GEORGIA VOICE, based in Atlanta, has been nominated in the category of best small business, one of the community honors from the Out Georgia Business Alliance.

THE LOS ANGELES BLADE partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL), a legal and civil rights organization that fights for policies defending Asian American and Pacific Islander community members, to host the group’s annual gala on October 16, 2025. The newspaper served as the organization’s 2025 gala media partner.

NEWS IS OUT, a queer media collaborative, presented a World AIDS Day panel discussion on December 1, 2025, co-sponsored by Gilead Sciences featuring ambassadors from Choose U, a new campaign that spotlights the experiences of people living with HIV globally. To see the event, watch the full panel on YouTube.

NLGJA: THE ASSOCIATION OF LGBTQ+ JOURNALISTS has launched the NLGJA Freelancer Directory, a new resource designed to amplify the work of freelancers and connect them directly with newsrooms and organizations looking for freelancers. For more information, go to https://www.nlgja.org/freelancer-directory/

OUTFAU, the LGBTQ student newspaper based at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and owned by Wilton Manors-based OUTSFL, is currently looking for its new student editor. For more information, contact editor@outfau.com.

PHILADELPHIA GAY NEWS, in anticipation of its 50th anniversary in 2026, is looking for readers’ discoveries, memories and stories of the newspaper. Readers are asked to share their thoughts using a brief form online, and some stories may be published in a future issue.

QNOTES, based in Charlotte, N.C., has launched the Qnotes Press Club, a membership program to help the newspaper sustain itself financially.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES publishers DR. BETTY L. SULLIVAN and JENNIFER L. VIEGAS submitted an open letter of support for the city’s Commission on the Status of Women.

THE WASHINGTON BLADE published exclusive reporting about “Ukraine’s LGBTQ war heroes” that was funded by the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S MEDIA FOUNDATION’s Women on the Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines Initiative in partnership with the HOWARD G. BUFFET Foundation.

WINDY CITY TIMES, based in Chicago, published a pocket-sized mini-flip book featuring 35 years of the newspaper’s front pages from 1985 to the end of its print circulation in 2020. To purchase, go to https://windycitytimes.com/product/windy-city-times-at-35-mini-covers-book/

TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
Volume 27
Issue 10