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Global Gay Nation => Gay Identity - Queer as Volk? => Topic started by: Feral on March 02, 2007, 06:38:23 PM
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Sonoma gay paper folds (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1603)
After 18 years of publication, We the People , Sonoma County's GLBT newspaper, is calling it quits.
The publication's editor, Gary Carnivele, said the nonprofit community-owned corporation that publishes the newspaper will now focus its attention on producing a Web site, gaysonoma.com (http://www.gaysonoma.com/index.php).
Founded in 1988 by Sandy Lowe and a handful of LGBT activists, We the People was published by the Redwood Empire Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Education Project. It was a free monthly, distributed primarily in Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino counties. In its early years it provided a platform for the rise of LGBT and AIDS activism in Sonoma County.
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Look for many more of these messages to com in the future. The gay press world wide seems to be experiencing financial problems brought on by a changing global, political and financial climate, to say nothing of the intense competition from electronic media...
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The internet menace is what has the entire media industry-- not just the gay bits-- beside itself with fear. In the next 10 years, expect to see a wholesale restructuring of the so-called MSM.
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a wholesale restructuring of the so-called MSM.
I am confused... MSM?
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Main-Stream Media, sweety. :)
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Main-Stream Media, sweety. :)
Ah, those things. I call them MMDI = Means of Mass-Des-Information.
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I swear... every time I see that acronym (every single time) I read Men who have Sex with Men. The confusion renders the discussions containing them deliciously absurd.
"In the next 10 years, expect to see a wholesale restructuring of the so-called men who have sex with men."
This is probably a true statement also ;)
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Why do I feel as if, at any moment, the GHF commandos will start dropping out of trees and take me off for trial because of what I used to do for a living?
It ain't easy bein' Eichmann. :P
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Because you are paranoid, Dear. :wink: The GHF has no commandos. If it did, they would not trouble themselves over news producers.
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Why do I feel as if, at any moment, the GHF commandos will start dropping out of trees and take me off for trial because of what I used to do for a living?
So what did you "used to do"? Were you a journalist (as I was)? We can get over that... it just takes about a decade or two...
Loved your Eichmann line. My father was an officer in the German army during WWII. He was drafted, served at the Russian front, worked his way up to tank commander. He was incredibly lucky in that he walked home from Stalingrad to Berlin and was not picked up or shot by the Russians.
As a teenager, I often wondered if I really did know everything he had done during the war, since he rarely and only very reluctantly talked about it. I often wondered if some day some people would show up and say he had really been something completely different, a prison guard like Barbie and others or something equally heinous, and if my life as a result would be ruined.
It turned out that he told us the truth, he was who he said he was and little more was to be discovered, but I wasn't able to really reconfirm this until I moved back to Germany, where I was able to more easily do the research I needed to.
The result of the research and finding out that my life has thus far been based on truth rather than lies has been the belated realization of just how lucky my father was. Many, many German soldiers who were never members of the NSDAP or followers of Hitler and his demagogues were captured in Stalingrad and elsewhere on both fronts. Those taken by the Russians - as my father could have been - were almost all universally sent to Siberia for years in gulags. (Several uncles experienced this fate.) Many died there, others did not see their homes until the late 1950s, by which time many of their wives had had them declared dead and had remarried and founded new families with others.
The fact that he got home from Berlin unscathed, even though it apparently took about a month of walking and hitching rides wherever he and a buddy could, still amazes me. The fact that he probably saved himself by throwing his officer's coat and uniform and medals into th Elbe in what today is the Czech Republic is also amazing to me.
As I get old(er), I am more amazed by the past than the present and find there's still plenty left to learn from it.
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Because you are paranoid, Dear. :wink: The GHF has no commandos. If it did, they would not trouble themselves over news producers.
Not yet. As one of the leading Generals of our future Gay Republic, I am sure we will have them. I am personally also working on a few devious new weapons such as the "Pink Bomb," which will give us the authority we will need to let those other countries know we mean business, even if our some of our commandos do wear boas.
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... even if our some of our commandos do wear boas.
LOL... and not even that scary boa constrictor type... (http://gayrepublic.org/modules/PNphpBB2/images/smiles/rolling.gif)
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Report: Gay media grows faster than mainstream (http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BAB6B170B%2DCC32%2D492B%2D8B7F%2D5113B7A9EA62%7D&siteid=rss)
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Ad revenue at gay and lesbian publications continues to grow faster than in the mainstream press -- expanding at almost three times the mainstream rate over the last decade -- according to a new report.
Total ad spending in gay- and lesbian-oriented publications hit a record $223.3 million last year, up 5.2% from 2005 and better than triple the 1996 figure, according to the Gay Press Report, an annual survey produced by ad agency Prime Access Inc. and gay media representative firm Rivendell Media.
Over the past 10 years, ad revenue for all consumer magazines grew at a compound annual rate of 4% versus an 11.8% pace for gay-targeted media.
... And a quick editorial note for those peculiar people who criticize GLAAD's media awards for not including Gay media -- "mainstream" means "not Gay," as in "straight."
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Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com/2007/07/i-now-pronounce.html)tells us that Seattle has a new 'mo magazine -- thoughtfully named " 'Mo (http://www.moseattle.com/) ". The 'zine has a web site, but the online version isn't quite there yet. Says the editor,
"We're not a bar mag. ... You're not going to see a lot of 20-year-old men in their underwear. We're both 40-something gay men, so the magazine probably hangs out at the 30-plus-year-old range. And we've gotten great feedback about that. People like to look for themselves... "
Hmmm. That they do. There is, however, much to be said for "a lot of 20-year-old men in their underwear" (or not in their underwear, as the case may be). They should reconsider. ;)
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There is, however, much to be said for "a lot of 20-year-old men in their underwear" (or not in their underwear, as the case may be). They should reconsider. ;)
The 30-year-plus ones are probably somewhat cheaper, you must understand this is a new magazine. =)) As for example, the GRD can't afford even this luxury. :(
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Maybe we could get Rain to post naughty pictures of himself. ;) :P
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Yeah... Pleeeaaaseeeee! =)) But I know there is also an awesome pic of KT as a samurai - Yummy! :)
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The 30-year-plus ones are probably somewhat cheaper, you must understand this is a new magazine. =)) As for example, the GRD can't afford even this luxury. :(
HA! We can easily afford an assortment of 30- and 40-somethings! It's not like I don't have a camera. ;) I just seriously question the advisability of "ornamenting" our pages with the 40-somethings I have at my disposal. I think such images might have a negative effect.
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The Seattle Times (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2003796471_momag22.html?syndication=rss) has an article as well.
Lehman was at brunch one day when he saw two heterosexual couples pass by a rack holding his magazine. One of the men picked up a copy and became engrossed in its pages, ignoring his companions.
"It's nice to know we weren't doing anything to close ourselves off to anyone who didn't directly relate to our community," Lehman said.
But then he wondered: "Maybe we're not gay enough!"
This is possible... I renew my objections about the exclusion of the 20-somethings in their undies (or less).
Then again, the 'zine features articles on "gay power couples and how couples deal with jealousy in their relationships. Arts reviews and columns on investments, pets, travel, health and fitness. Profiles of local businesses and leaders in the gay community."
The health and fitness articles alone are more than adequate for basic maintenance of a straight (male) audience. Really -- those gym bunnies know more than a thing or two about fitness. Here again, I should point out that 20-somethings in gym shorts and a film of baby oil are rather standard illustrations for such articles.
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=)) OK, OK -- it is for a reason why GRD doesn't decorate its sites with nude staff pictures -- we have a reputation to loose (or was it "too loose"? Curse English grammar!).
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English grammar (at least the US version) has already been well and mightily cursed by thirteen generations of schoolboys. I think the British lads have made a fair effort with their own maledictions for somewhat longer.
While we might not lose our reputations entirely, surely nude staff pictures would add nothing positive to the site. Nope. Nothing positive at all. We wish to increase readership, after all.
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I was going to suggest we all post naked pictures of ourselves and then someone went ahead and volunteered me. LOL. Actually, I don't have a problem being nude. My bf, on the other hand...well...that's another story.
I've been trying to get him out to Sandy Hook, a local nude beach, for the past few summers.
He's got body issues.
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With killer abs like yours Rain, of *course* you don't mind being nude. ;)
Well, and you've got some other rather tasty bits, too... :P
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For Gay Press, 'Good Old Days' Are Here (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003646726)
NEW YORK For gay newspaper publishers, the good old days are now. "Compared to 23 years ago?" Publisher Tracy Baim says with a laugh, referring to the year the weekly Windy City Times was founded in Chicago. "I think it's a great time to be in gay publishing. It's so much easier than it was even 10 years ago to pitch to mainstream businesses"
Indeed, according to the Gay Press Report, advertising spending in publications, about half of them weekly newspapers targeting the so-called GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered) audience, increased 205% between 1996 and 2006. Last year's ad revenues of $223.3 million represented an increase of 5.2% over the year before -- a period during which print and online ad spending on daily newspapers was essentially flat.
In 1994, just 19 Fortune 500 brands advertised in the gay press. Last year, 183 did.
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"In this market, people did have a dollar and a dream," says Todd Evans, president and CEO of Rivendell Media Inc., a gay media rep firm that produces the Gay Press Report with the ad agency Prime Access Inc. "You had a lot of people who were more about the cause than the business, and unfortunately you have to pay attention to business, too."
Ah, yes... "more about the cause than the business." I've seen that in a number of fields. I've been known to call such creatures "lifestylers." It's all about the lifestyle with them -- they don't so much want to run a newspaper (or a restaurant or a shop or a factory)... they want to be seen to be running a newspaper. Thus they end up being nothing more than a packet of meaningless appearances and have no substance at all.
The Gay people would be well-served by any number of Gay-owned businesses. We are not served at all by the mere appearance of such things.
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Yes-yes, we could and should be so much more than what we actually are... There are so many things which Gay people urgently need, one does not know where to start. Probably it would be best if those wealthy and gifted individuals who use to work for straight press, or do own some, would turn towards Gay journalism and publishing. With few exceptions, so far they have choosen not to do so - as regrettable as it is.
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Gay channel Logo launches weekly newscast (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071106/tv_nm/logo_dc)
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Gay-lesbian network Logo is moving into the network news business, planning to televise a half-hour weekly newscast produced by CBS News.
"CBS News on Logo" will premiere next Monday at 7 p.m. EST. The newscast stems from a two-year partnership between the MTV Networks channel and CBS News. A dedicated CBS News crew working out of its West 57th Street broadcast center had been producing three-minute interstitials that aired daily on Logo.
Those interstitials will be replaced by the half-hour newscast.
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The new show will focus on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues including the 2008 election, HIV/AIDs and entertainment, sports and science news. The newscast will be available on Logo as well as streamed at 365gay.com, a Logo-owned Website.
Oh dear.
I can't imagine what they were thinking. Fluffing those interstitials into a half-hour weekly? Oy.
I guess Jason Bellini's videoblog (http://logo.blogs.com/hereandnow/2006/12/about_me.html)is doing better than I had imagined.
There is a bright side to this -- the Gay "print" media can rejoice... and, it certainly looks like viewers of Logo will soon be spared those dreadful 30-second spots featuring news from three days ago.