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Wisconsin’s Our Lives beset by lumber shortage, vandalism
by Joe Siegel A newspaper can collect the news, but then it needs the paper. So a local lumber shortage has caused headaches for For Our Lives, based in Madison, Wisconsin. “The way our contract has been written is that from the […]
Philly newspaper subpoenas DA in murder investigation of trans activist
by Fred Kuhr Attorneys representing Philadelphia Gay News subpoenaed District Attorney Larry Krasner this past June in order to force him to testify at a court hearing stemming from the mysterious 2002 death of African-American trans activist Nizah Morris. The subpoena asks […]
North Carolina’s qnotes launches Carolinas LGBTQ Journalism Fund to support local writers
by Chris Rudisill(Chris Rudisill is the project manager for the QnotesCarolinas.org Project and is also the Director of the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative. The following piece ran in the May 28, 2021, issue of qnotes and is reprinted here with permission.) In discussing a new […]
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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) ADELANTE, based in Los Angeles, entered its 25th year of publication with its June 2021 issue. IRENE BENEDETTI, a longtime Philadelphia LGBTQ advocate and a former advertising coordinator for […]
Struggling publications seek financial support from readers
by Joe Siegel Many readers depend on local LGBTQ publications for vital news and information about their communities. And now, some of these struggling publications are depending on their readers for financial support to stay alive. For one, Dave Rhodes, publisher and […]
QNotes launches project to support local writers across the Carolinas
by Fred Kuhr In connection with its 35th anniversary last month, Charlotte, N.C.-based QNotes celebrated its QnotesCarolinas project, with the goal of supporting LGBTQ voices in local media in both North and South Carolina, as well as its Carolinas LGBTQ Journalist Fund […]
Publications mark 40 years of covering AIDS crisis
by Joe Siegel This year marks 40 years since the first case of AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) appeared in the United States. To commemorate, LGBTQ publications are running various stories about the epidemic. According to data provided by the World Health Organization […]
NLGJA announces multiple honors for LGBTQ media journalists
by Fred Kuhr Last month was a busy one for NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, announcing its Excellence in Journalism Awards, its inaugural Insider Fellowship recipient, and the recipients of its inaugural Curve Foundation awards. “After a year unlike any other, […]
Growing up with the Georgia Voice
by Katie Burkholder(Katie Burkholder is the new editor of Atlanta-based Georgia Voice. The following piece ran in the June 3, 2021, issue of the newspaper and appears here with permission.) Exactly one year ago, I wrote an editorial titled “It’s Not Me, It’s […]
by Fred Kuhr Longtime Seattle Gay News (SGN) editor and publisher George Bakan, who died unexpectedly last year, was the driving force for much of what happened at the newspaper. And that drive continues today. In fact, his death prompted the push […]