SF Bay Times wants to “regulate Dick, not Jane”
by Fred Kuhr The San Francisco Bay Times often uses its full-page cover image to make a political point, as it did back in April when it splashed the official portraits of former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama on […]
Journalists confab to be in person after two years of virtual meetings
by Joe Siegel Over 650 LGBTQ media professionals will gather again in person in the Windy City Sept. 8-11 for the NLGJA: The National Association of LGBTQ Journalists Convention. This year’s event will be held at the Drake Hotel. The 2020 Convention […]
The necessity of newspapers as SFGN turns 12
by Pier Angelo(Pier Angelo was born in Italy, moved to England at the age of 17, and learned English at the Nelson School of English. He attended college and graduate school in Manhattan. In 2009, he founded SFGN — South Florida Gay News — […]
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 26th year of publication with its June 2022 issue. CHUCK COLBERT, a longtime LGBTQ media journalist who was a former correspondent for […]
LGBTQ media journalists react to high court’s abortion ruling
by Joe Siegel The outrage over the U.S. Supreme Court’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had granted women the right to terminate a pregnancy, spawned massive protests all over the country. After nearly 50 years of legal abortion nationwide, several […]
Monkeypox impact on gay and bisexual men warrants coverage
by Joe Siegel As cases of monkeypox continue to spread across the country, LGBTQ media has been covering the epidemic with special attention given to its impact on gay and bisexual men. The Los Angeles Blade organized a town hall about monkeypox […]
Florida’s SFGN marks 12 years with two-week celebration
by Fred Kuhr SFGN, also known as South Florida Gay News and based in Wilton Manors, celebrated its 12th anniversary over two issues in June. To mark the occasion, the newspaper took a look back at front pages over the years, held […]
DeSantis spox goes after LGBTQ Nation reporter with fake photo
by Fred Kuhr A question for comment from an LGBTQ media outlet led to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary tweeting out a doctored photo targeting the LGBTQ community. It all started on June 8, when DeSantis said that he wanted the […]
The road ahead as the Los Angeles Blade hits the five-year mark
by Brody Levesque(Brody Levesque is Out Editor of the Los Angeles Blade. The following piece appeared in the April 8, 2022, issue of the newspaper, and is reprinted here with permission.) According to numerology, the number five symbolizes freedom, curiosity, and change […]
by Joe Siegel Charles “Chuck” R. Colbert, a veteran journalist for LGBTQ media in New England and across the country, passed away on June 30. He was 67. Colbert, a native of Johnstown, Penn., later moved to Cambridge, Mass., where he was […]