Out and The Advocate announce new editorial team

by Fred Kuhr Last December, the editors in chief of two of the most venerable community magazines — Out and The Advocate — both announced that they were leaving Pride Media, which owns both publications, on the same day, December 11. In […]

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Blade Foundation awards two fellowships in Washington and Delaware

by Fred Kuhr  The Blade Foundation, a non-profit arm of the Washington Blade that works to educate young and upcoming LGBTQ journalists and to fund enterprise projects into community topics, announced that it has awarded two $2,000 fellowships to aspiring journalists. The […]

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GUEST COMMENTARY: LGBTQ media’s role in keeping the internet free and uncensored

by Mark Segal (Mark Segal is the publisher of Philadelphia Gay News. This column originally appeared in PGN. It is reprinted here with permission.) PGN’s Mark Segal This newspaper you are reading right now (Philadelphia Gay News) most likely had a major […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) AMBUSH, based in New Orleans, entered its 38th year of publication with its January 14, 2020, issue. BAY AREA REPORTER, based in San Francisco, entered its 50th year of […]

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Annual LGBTQ Community Survey seeks partners

by Fred Kuhr The 14th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey is starting next month, and Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) is looking for community partners.  CMI is an LGBTQ market research company founded in 1992 and based in Corte Madera, Calif. Every year […]

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New year, new biweekly Between The Lines

by Joe Siegel Michigan’s LGBTQ weekly Between the Lines (BTL) has a new format and now publishes on a biweekly basis. Publishers Jan Stevenson and Susan Horowitz announced the changes in a December 18 editorial. “As some of you may have already […]

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San Diego paper’s new owner rebrands as countywide

by Fred Kuhr Late last year, Gay San Diego was bought by Sacramento, Calif., nightclub owner and magazine publisher Terry Sidie. The newspaper was then rebranded as LGBTQ San Diego County News. Terry Sidie Sidie bought the newspaper from publisher David Mannis, […]

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Publications mark Black History Month

by Joe Siegel LGBTQ publications are celebrating Black History Month with special features on civil rights activists, entertainers, and other historic figures. The Los Angeles Blade, for one, ran a story on February 6 about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pardoning of gay civil […]

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GUEST COMMENTARY: Blade reporter held by ICE needs to be freed

by Kevin Naff (Kevin Naff is editor of the Washington Blade. This editorial originally appeared in the newspaper’s January 17, 2020, issue and is reprinted here with permission.) Yariel Valdés González, a Washington Blade contributing writer from Cuba, is enduring inhumane treatment […]

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NEWS ANALYSIS: The best and the worst LGBTQ stories of the past decade

by Lisa Kenn Keen News Service (This report was previously published by the Keen News Service, which covers national political and legal news for LGBT news media organizations around the country. It is reprinted here with permission.) Scanning back over the past […]

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