TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com. AMBUSH, based in New Orleans, entered its 34th year of publication with its January 5, 2016, issue. BAY AREA REPORTER, based in San Francisco, entered its 46th year of […]
Colorado’s Out Front battles Outfront Media
by Joe Siegel What’s in a name? In the case of Out Front, everything — including its very existence. The Denver-based LGBT magazine is ensconced in a legal battle with Outfront Media Inc., one of the country’s largest outdoor advertising businesses. The […]
Cleveland’s Gay People’s Chronicle closes, now up for sale
by Chuck Colbert Gay People’s Chronicle (GPC), based in Cleveland, Ohio, has ceased publication. Its last issue was volume 31, issue 13, dated December 25, 2015. News of the paper’s closing came in email correspondence from Dave Ebbert, advertising sales manager, to […]
David Atlanta unveils new publication, Goliath Atlanta
by Chuck Colbert Atlanta has a new LGBT publication, Goliath Atlanta Magazine, which co-publisher William Duffee-Braun called “the next chapter of gay Atlanta.” Goliath Atlanta bills itself as “the ultimate creative cultural guide for the discerning gay man. Through its diverse blended […]
PRESSING QUESTIONS: Windy City Times of Chicago
Interview with Publisher and Executive Editor Tracy Baim by Joe Siegel Geographic coverage area: Chicago and its suburbs Year founded: 1985 Physical dimensions of publication: 10.5” x 14” Average page count: 32-40 Print run: 10,000 weekly Web site: www.windycitymediagroup.com, average 115,000 unique […]
TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES
What’s happening at your publication? Let us know. Email editor Fred Kuhr at editor@presspassq.com. BAY WINDOWS, based in Boston, entered its 34th year of publication with its December 10, 2015, issue. ALEX COX, a sales representative for Livonia, Mich.-based BETWEEN THE LINES, legally […]
Gay activist, publisher and pioneer Tim Campbell dies
by Chuck Colbert Gay rights activist and LGBT publisher Tim Campbell died December 26, 2015, at a hospice in Houston, Texas, at the age of 76, from esophageal cancer. Campbell was perhaps best known as the publisher of the GLC Voice newspaper […]
Kansas’ Liberty Press gets boost from shuttered alt weekly
by Joe Siegel The Liberty Press, the longest-running LGBT newspaper in Kansas, has been given a boost from a now-defunct publication. F5, Wichita’s weekly alternative newspaper, stopped publishing in July 2015. In November, owner Mike Marlett donated the magazine racks the paper […]
NLGJA stylebook branching out en español
by Chuck Colbert The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s Stylebook has been a resource for countless newsrooms covering the LGBT community. Consequently, the organization is planning an expansion of this resource for those outlets delivering the news in Spanish. As Adam Pawlus, […]
by Mark Segal Mark Segal, publisher of Philadelphia Gay News, is the nation’s most award-winning commentator in LGBT media. His best selling memoir “And Then I Danced, Traveling the Road to Equality’” is available at amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com or your favorite […]