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 […]
Wisconsin’s Our Lives restructures, looks to go statewide
by Fred Kuhr Patrick Farabaugh, publisher of Madison, Wisc.-based Our Lives Magazine, has stepped back into the role of editor amidst a “painful buyout” and the demise of his Milwaukee rival. Patrick Farabaugh The staffing change and planned restructuring occurs a year […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: 2019’s Surprise Star and a Looming Future
by Lisa Keen 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.) One might argue that 2019 was a pretty good year for […]
PRESSING QUESTIONS: Out and About Nashville of Nashville, Tenn.
Interview with Editor and Publisher Jerry Jones by Joe Siegel Geographic coverage area: Middle Tennessee (Nashville and surrounding counties) Year founded: 2002 Staff size and breakdown: One publisher, one managing editor, one salesperson, and three volunteer writers/video reporters Key demographics: 59 percent […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com) ZACK FORD is the new press secretary at the ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE, a Washington, D.C.-based progressive judicial advocacy organization. Previously, Ford spent eight years at THINK PROGRESS, the news […]
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 […]