On Our Backs’ Honey Lee Cottrell succumbs to cancer

by Chuck Colbert Honey Lee Cottrell, a visionary photographer and filmmaker who pioneered lesbian erotica in the 1980s through her contributions to the women’s sex magazine On Our Backs, died on Monday, September 21. She was 69. The cause was pancreatic cancer. […]

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Florida’s Multimedia Platforms Inc. acquires L.A.’s Frontiers Media

by Chuck Colbert Multimedia Platforms, Inc., (MMP), the only publicly-traded LGBT media company, has acquired yet another LGBT media outlet, New Frontiers Media Holdings, LLC. Los Angeles-based Frontiers Media is active in digital, mobile, streaming video, print and outdoor signage, and is […]

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Q. Digital takes on latest LGBT media consolidation

by Chuck Colbert LGBT media is undergoing yet another merger as Q. Digital announced on Sept. 29 a consolidation of its online properties GayCities and Queerty with new acquisitions of LGBTQ Nation, Dragaholic, and Bilerico. According to a press release, the move […]

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Pressing Questions: Guy Magazine of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Interview with Managing Editor Diego Wyatt by Joe Siegel Geographic coverage area: Distributed at over 150 locations throughout Fort Lauderdale and a growing number of locations in Miami Year founded: 2009 Physical dimensions of publication: 6” x 9” Average page count: 96 […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com. THE GAY ALLIANCE OF GENESEE VALLEY, publisher of Rochester, N.Y.-based THE EMPTY CLOSET, has moved to news offices in the city’s Neighborhood of the Arts. The new space will […]

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NYC’s Troy Masters moves to L.A. to launch new publication

by Joe Siegel On October 9, there will be a new gay publication in Los Angeles. Troy Masters, a figure in the world of New York City LGBT media for over 25 years, is launching The Pride L.A. The newspaper will be […]

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Trans* elders, faith and HIV coverage all hot topics as NLGJA convention and LGBT Media Summit “come home” to San Francisco

by Chuck Colbertwith additional reporting by Fred Kuhr SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of LGBT news industry professionals and allies attended the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s (NLGJA) annual convention and 11th LGBT Media Summit, a four-day gathering held this year over the Labor […]

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Georgia Voice hires its first African-American editor

by Chuck Colbert Atlanta-based Georgia Voice has a new editor. He is Darian Aaron, who joined the staff on August 21. “I’m humbled by this amazing opportunity to lead one of the premier LGBT publications in the country,” Aaron said. “With this new […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

Bobby Blair What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com.BOBBY BLAIR, CEO and founder of Florida-based MULTIMEDIA PLATFORMS and a former world-ranked tennis player, took part in a celebrity tennis exhibition on June 7, 2015. The event, […]

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NLGJA convention and LGBT Media Summit to celebrate 25th anniversary back home in San Francisco

by Chuck Colbertadditional material added by Fred Kuhr More than 350 journalists, news executives, and communications professionals are expected in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend when the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) convenes its annual convention and 11th LGBT […]

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