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REVIEW: “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival” by Sean Strub (Scribner, 420 pages, $30)
by Chuck Colbert Sean Strub’s poignant and compelling memoir exemplifies storytelling par excellence. At its heart, “Body Counts” is the telling and remembering of LGBT history, the heroic tales of those on the front lines in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, both the survivors […]
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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know at editor@presspassq.com.) BAY TIMES, based in San Francisco, celebrated 35 years of publication with its Nov. 14, 2013, issue. COURTNEY BEDELL is the new writer for Baltimore-based GAY LIFE. She will be writing the […]
LA’s Frontiers emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
by Chuck Colbert A Southern California-based LGBT publication concluded a nearly nine-month period of Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the purchase of Frontiers Media by Michael A. Turner, a Los Angeles investment banker. Turner, who is gay, has created a new company. Judge […]
Texas gets new statewide LGBT publication, Lone Star Q
by Chuck Colbert A former editor at the only LGBT weekly in Texas, fired more than two months ago, is moving on. John Wright, who served as Dallas Voice senior editor from 2012 to September 2013, has launched Lone Star Q, an online […]
Dallas’ Voice Publishing rebrands gay yellow pages directory as OUT North Texas, part of move toward magazine format
by David Webb Voice Publishing LLC, based in Dallas, is revamping its traditional gay yellow pages directory to a “glossy, full-color, slick magazine with a dynamic LGBT visitors guide” for Dallas-Fort Worth that will include a business directory, a relocation guide and […]
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San Francisco newspaper running up its BARtab by beefing up adult content
by Chuck Colbert Pony up to the BAR — the Bay Area Reporter and its special nightlife section, that is. There is something for everyone — spirits, society, leather, porn, sex, romance, personals, kink and a whole lot more. At a time when […]
TOP STORY: Same-sex wedding survey supplies critical data to publishers and editors
Offers information for use in connecting LGBT media with wedding industry businesses by Chuck Colbert New Jersey, Hawaii and Illinois are the newest states where same-sex marriage is now legal or will be next spring. And just as state lawmakers and a […]
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TOP STORY: Riding the line between journalism and activism
Windy City Times’ Tracy Baim organizes rally that helps lead Illinois to marriage equality by Chuck Colbert Like many Illinoisans, the publisher of Chicago-based Windy City Times closely followed lawmakers’ deliberations in the state capital of Springfield. But when legislators failed to […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know at editor@presspassq.com.) COMMUNITY MARKETING INC., based is San Francisco, is holding its 14th Conference on LGBT Tourism & Hospitality in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dec. 11-13, 2013. For more information, go to http://www.communitymarketinginc.com/education-and-conferences/international-conference-on-gay-lesbian-tourism/. FRONTIERS MAGAZINE, […]
by Chuck Colbert One need not be Roman Catholic to understand that Sean Strub’s new book “Body Counts” is in no small measure fueled partly by his faith. From the very beginning, Strub calls out the Church and its hierarchical leadership on […]