Gay Magazine: GAY PRESS STRUGGLES FOR MAINSTREAM ADS
NEW YORK -- Like many other gay news publications, Outweek magazine wants to broaden its advertising base to include mainstream advertisers.But the New York-based weekly has taken a gamble that even the largest gay magazine, The Advocate, has shied away from. It eliminated its most lucrative ad category -- phone sex ads, which accounted for 35 percent of its revenues -- earlier this fall to make its pages more attractive to skittish national...

Gay Magazine: Co-founder of Out magazine, nation's largest devoted to gay topics, dies of lymphoma at 36
Sarah Pettit, a lesbian journalist who helped found the nation's largest gay magazine, Out, died Wednesday. She was 36. Pettit died at a New York hospital from complications related to lymphoma, said a spokesman at Newsweek, where she worked after leaving Out. She had been on leave from Newsweek since last March, battling the illness. Pettit co-founded Out magazine in 1992, four years after she graduated from Yale. Out reports on culture, travel and fashion and features...

Gay magazine honors new Episcopal bishop
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A national gay magazine has named as its person of the year New Hampshire's new Episcopal bishop, the denomination's first openly gay prelate.The Advocate says Bishop Gene Robinson is a symbol in the battle to move religion away from hatred and exclusion and toward love and equality. His consecration has opened a conservative-liberal rift that threatens to split the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, but the bishop...

Gay Magazine: Jesus Was Gay Rhythm Activism G-7 Welcoming Committee Records
Jesus Was Gay Rhythm Activism G-7 Welcoming Committee Records email: g-7@a-zone.org Here it is! The music that Norman Nawrocki and his comrades took ...

Gay Magazine: Young, gay, and OK: cultural shifts and supportive parents are leading gay youths to come out earlier, some before their teens
In 2003, Sayre Chavez stood before his fifth-grade class and read the following poem: I am a child, a boy A boy who loves to play. I am a boy, ...

Gay Magazine: Is there room for another gay title? Refresh, aimed at the affluent gay market, will launch in October. But with the magazine sector struggling, will it
The "pink pound" rolls into tills night after night in the clubs, bars and coffee shops of Soho, Brighton, Manchester and further afield. It buys ...

Gay Magazine: Brainwashed no more: the firestorm over Zach, an out teen trapped in an "ex-gay" program in Tennessee, has uncovered the far right's aggressive
The low point for Katie Frick was when a traveling evangelist had her stand up at the front of a church and had the faithful lay their hands on her, ...

Gay Magazine: Kolbe's quiet fights: the only openly gay Republican in Congress has taken the GOP's Christian right wing to task—and survived politically
In February 2004 Arizona congressman Jim Kolbe--the only openly gay Republican in Congress--issued a scathing statement attacking the proposed Federal ...