LGBT journalists group looking for convention panel proposals
by Chuck Colbert With its silver anniversary confab held just a few months ago, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) is already planning for the next convention. The organization has issued a call to its members for submission of proposals for […]
PRESSING QUESTIONS: UNITE Magazine, based in Nashville
Interview with Publisher Joey Amato by Joe Siegel Geographic coverage area: Nashville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Virginia Year founded: 2012 Staff size and breakdown: More than editors, writers, and contributors Physical dimensions of publication: 8.5” x 11” Key demographics: Men and women aged […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com. BEAUTIFUL AS I WANT TO BE is LOGO’s new digital-exclusive video series spotlighting gender youth. It premiered on October 28, 2015, on LOGOTV.COM as well as the network’s YOUTUBE […]
Survey results offer LGBT community data along gender and generational lines
by Chuck Colbert In August, Community Marketing & Insights Inc. (CMI), a gay-owned San Francisco-based consumer-research company, released its 9th annual LGBT community survey, providing useful data for LGBT organizations and gay media publishers, editors, and reporters. This year’s survey drew responses […]
Former HX publisher Gary Lacinski dies
by Chuck Colbert Gary Lacinski, former publisher of the gay entertainment guide HX, has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 53, according to a news story first reported by Edge Media. Lacinski came to HX Magazine in the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Chuck Colbert For its OUT 100 issue, OUT Magazine has named President Barack Obama as “Ally of the Year,” with a photo of Obama gracing the cover. This marks the first time in history that a sitting president has been photographed […]