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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PRESSING QUESTIONS: Grab Magazine of Chicago
Interview with Publisher Stacy Bridgesby Joe Siegel Year founded: 2009 Staff size and breakdown: 8 writers and 1 editor Key demographics: Men aged 25 to 44 Web site: www.GrabChicago.com ***** PPQ: What feature or features of Grab have been the most popular […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) BETWEEN THE LINES, based in Livonia, Mich., announced that the publication is switching to a new biweekly format in 2020. It published weekly until the end of 2019. Publishers […]
Most hold off on endorsing, while SFGN backs Mayor Pete
by Joe Siegel Despite the landmark candidacy of openly gay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, many LGBTQ publications are holding off on endorsing candidates for the upcoming caucuses and primaries. “At this point, we have made no decision on an endorsement or […]
Is PrEP an LGBTQ media responsibility?
by Joe Siegel Do LGBTQ media have a responsibility to promote condom use and PrEP? San Francisco-based Bay Area Reporter (BAR) recently reported on a study which showed a majority of HIV-negative young adults don’t use condoms or the HIV prevention protocol […]
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 […]