Author: Fred Kuhr
New Washington Blade campaign promotes LGBT-friendly businesses
by Chuck Colbert In response to efforts in various states to pass laws enabling discrimination against LGBT patrons, the Washington Blade recently launched a campaign to spotlight LGBT-friendly businesses in the District of Columbia. The Blade formally launched its LGBT Welcoming Business […]
In a first for LGBT media, Washington Blade sends reporter to Cuba
by Chuck Colbert The Washington Blade has sent a news reporter to Cuba to cover LGBT life on the island, six months after President Obama began normalizing relations with the country. The assignment is believed to be the first time an LGBT […]
Here Media launches new social network
by Chuck Colbert Here Media Inc. has launched the new social network Pride.com, “a content and conversation destination where pride belongs to everyone,” according to a press release. “Pride.com gives millennials new tools to amplify their digital voices, raise their social profiles, […]
PGN wins a slew of awards, again
by Chuck Colbert Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) has done it again, recently winning a slew of awards from the Local Media Association and five from the Society of Professional Journalists. “Please note that those awards represent almost all the departments here at […]
Baltimore paper gives voice to activists in coverage of riots
by Chuck Colbert Mainstream print and broadcast media were all over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American, an incident that wreaked havoc on Baltimore. Arrested by police on April 12, Gray suffered spinal chord injuries in police custody while […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com. JOHN M. BECKER, editor in chief of THE BILERICO PROJECT, celebrated his 30th birthday on March 1, 2015. To celebrate, he posted on WWW.BILERICO.COM that he was taking the […]
HIV Plus magazine drops HIV in title, now just Plus
by Chuck Colbert Here Media Inc. has rebranded its popular HIV Plus magazine, the country’s largest publication aimed at people with HIV and those who care about and for them, as Plus. The new Plus brand, which launches with the magazine’s May/June […]
Gaycation magazine acquires Indy’s The Word
by Chuck Colbert Gaycation, a national monthly magazine about LGBT travel, has acquired The Word, an Indianapolis-based LGBT tabloid, and its sister publication, Up Downtown, from longtime owner and publisher Ted Fleischaker. The Word will remain headquartered in Indianapolis and will continue […]
Pressing Questions: Letters from Camp Rehoboth of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
by Joe Siegel Interview with editor and publisher Steve Elkins. He is executive director of the Camp Rehoboth Community Center, which publishes the magazine. Geographic coverage area: The primary coverage is the coastal area of southern Delaware, although issues are also distributed […]
by Chuck Colbert The editor in chief of The Bilerico Project has stepped down. Writing on the popular blog on May 5, John Becker said, “I’m incredibly grateful to my dear friends Bil Browning [Bilerico co-founder and publisher] and Jerame Davis for […]