Bay Area Reporter expands its repertoire of kink with new columnist

by Chuck Colbert The leading LGBT weekly newspaper in San Francisco has a kinky new hire.  Bay Area Reporter’s BARtab Editor Jim Provenzano recently announced the venerable publication would take on a new leather columnist. Race Bannon will replace outgoing leather columnist […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know at editor@presspassq.com.) THOMAS BASGIL JR., editor of Trenton, N.J.-based OUT IN JERSEY magazine, stepped down after the October-November 2013 issue. He was replaced by the publication’s first female editor SAM MARTINO in December 2013. […]

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TOP STORY: POZ founder Sean Strub pens new book on AIDS epidemic

Talks with Press Pass Q about “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival” by Chuck Colbert The AIDS epidemic is not over for the LGBT community, even as AIDS activism and media coverage have waned. That point, a pressing […]

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SIDEBAR: Strub says safer-sex messaging is more complicated than we think

by Chuck Colbert While Sean Strub’s confessional and historical memoir “Body Counts” raises awareness and prompts important questions about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment for men who have sex with men (MSM) and the larger LGBT community, one thing seems absolutely clear: Younger […]

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SIDEBAR: Strub recounts how he took activism to the streets, and the Church

by Chuck Colbert One need not be Roman Catholic to understand that Sean Strub’s new book “Body Counts” is in no small measure fueled partly by his faith. From the very beginning, Strub calls out the Church and its hierarchical leadership on […]

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REVIEW: “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival” by Sean Strub (Scribner, 420 pages, $30)

by Chuck Colbert Sean Strub’s poignant and compelling memoir exemplifies storytelling par excellence. At its heart, “Body Counts” is the telling and remembering of LGBT history, the heroic tales of those on the front lines in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, both the survivors […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

(What’s happening at your publication? Let us know at editor@presspassq.com.) BAY TIMES, based in San Francisco, celebrated 35 years of publication with its Nov. 14, 2013, issue. COURTNEY BEDELL is the new writer for Baltimore-based GAY LIFE. She will be writing the […]

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LA’s Frontiers emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy

by Chuck Colbert A Southern California-based LGBT publication concluded a nearly nine-month period of Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the purchase of Frontiers Media by Michael A. Turner, a Los Angeles investment banker. Turner, who is gay, has created a new company. Judge […]

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Texas gets new statewide LGBT publication, Lone Star Q

by Chuck Colbert A former editor at the only LGBT weekly in Texas, fired more than two months ago, is moving on. John Wright, who served as Dallas Voice senior editor from 2012 to September 2013, has launched Lone Star Q, an online […]

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Dallas’ Voice Publishing rebrands gay yellow pages directory as OUT North Texas, part of move toward magazine format

by David Webb Voice Publishing LLC, based in Dallas, is revamping its traditional gay yellow pages directory to a “glossy, full-color, slick magazine with a dynamic LGBT visitors guide” for Dallas-Fort Worth that will include a business directory, a relocation guide and […]

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