AUGUST 2010 (Vol. 12, No. 5)
A Publication of Rivendell Media
Celebrating 11 years of serving our community of journalists
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Feature:
Open up that Golden Gate: NLGJA and its LGBT Media Summit heading to San Francisco to celebrate 20th anniversary
Sidebar:
LGBT media recognized with NLGJA awards
In The News: Report shows ad revenues up at LGBT media; Instinct magazine? There’s an app for that; Minneapolis publication criticized for “outing” anti-gay pastor
Pressing Questions: Gay Parent Magazine
Letters to the Editor: Stonewall was a rebellion, not a riot
Transitions and Milestones
Bulletin Board
Staff
Contributors to This Issue
Contact Us
What do Al Jolson, the cast of “I Love Lucy” and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) have in common? Their renditions of “California, Here I Come.”
The classic ditty would make a pretty good theme song for this year’s annual NLGJA convention, scheduled for Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2 -5, in San Francisco.
The group is heading “right back where [it] started from” in the City by the Bay, 20 years ago, with the first gathering of an up-and-coming group of LGBT journalists out on the job in increasing numbers, pressing for domestic partner benefits in news organizations.
In a blog entry, CNN’s Jen Christensen pitched an important reason for attending. "I’m going to this year’s convention because I want to hear how our work and our lives have changed since NLGJA started 20 years ago," wrote Christensen, who serves as the organization’s vice president for broadcasting.
Undoubtedly, the convention’s location is a big draw, said Michael Tune, NLGJA’s executive director. “People want to be out and about in the city.” Accordingly this year, several guided tours of San Francisco, including the Castro, have been incorporated into convention programming.
Soon-to-be NLGJA Hall of Fame inductee Hank Plante, one of the nation’s first out openly gay TV journalists, will facilitate a Q&A with author Armistead Maupin, who turned his San Francisco Chronicle columns on daily life in the City by the Bay into the “Tales of the City” series of novels. The topic of conversation will be the upcoming theatrical musical adaptation of the celebrated novelist’s works that will debut next spring, with a world premiere in San Francisco.
Another weekend high note is Saturday night's gala dinner, including the induction of three journalists into the organization’s Hall of Fame. “Two of the three are from the gay press,” said NLGJA president David Steinberg, a copy editor at the Chronicle. “Richard Rouilard was an editor-in-chief at The Advocate and an early NLGJA leader. Edythe Eyde produced what is considered the first lesbian publication in the country.”
Of interest to those in LGBT media, the annual LGBT Media Summit is in its seventh year.
“Each year, there is this lingering question: Is the summit still needed?” said Matthew S. Bajko, chair of the one-day event, scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 1. “Many of the issues that mainstream and LGBT journalists face are similar,” added Bajko, an assistant editor at the local weekly Bay Area Reporter (BAR).
And yet there are differences. “Some issues overlap with mainstream media, but in a different way,” he said. “[LGBT media] respond in a very different way because we don’t have the same kind of resources as the mainstream. So to have a special day, where people within the LGBT media industry can talk and share best practices and meet [colleagues] who can relate to and share the everyday struggles, there is value to that."
Another benefit, Bajko said, “is the opportunity for ‘our’ people to share ‘our’ knowledge with members of the mainstream media,” insofar as any number of convention panels, workshops and plenary sessions include participation of LGBT media professionals.
The summit’s first order of business this year is tackling an old chestnut, the supposed death rattle of LGBT media. The opening breakfast plenary, “The State of LGBT Media,” dives head first into the hot water, hearing how editors and publishers have weathered the economic recession. Panelists include Philadelphia Gay News publisher and columnist Mark Segal, Curve magazine editor-in-chief and publisher Frances Stevens, and BAR general manager Michael M. Yamashita.
The focus of the plenary is “to learn about best business decisions made over the last year that have kept publications surviving,” if not thriving, explained moderator Bajko.
One morning breakout session, “There's an App For That,” explores how digital technology can be used to boost readership and ad revenue. Here again, the business dimensions of new media present the questions: How can LGBT media companies monetize smart phone apps? What about revenue streams from online platforms? How are younger readers accessing LGBT news and entertainment? Is the younger crowd abandoning printed versions of gay newspapers and magazines?
Panelists include Bay Area freelancer and blogger Matt Baume, EDGE Publications publisher David Foucher, lezgetreal.com’s Melanie Nathan, and Anthony Young, director of search engine optimization at Eightfold Logic, Inc. BAR assistant editor Seth Hemmelgarn is the moderator.
At another morning breakout session, “What's the Diagnosis, Doc?” attendees will hear from medical care professionals about emerging LGBT trends. Panelists include Jeff Sheehy, communications director at the University of California, San Francisco AIDS Research Institute; Albert Liu, director of HIV Prevention Intervention Studies for the San Francisco Department of Public Health; Jo Anne Keatley, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Transgender Health; and Dr. Eric M. Verdin, senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology. Freelance medical writer Liz Highleyman is the moderator.
LGBT broadcast media take center stage during the luncheon plenary when various producers of radio and TV programs explain the challenges of keeping LGBT programming on the air. “They have an even harder time getting a workable financial model and advertising revenue than LGBT papers do,” Bajko said. Panelists on “Don't Touch that Dial: LGBT Media on the Airwaves” include Sirius XM Radio’s OutQ news director Tim Curran, Raymond Donald Hong of Outlook Video, Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman of “Out in the Bay Radio Show,” Michelle Meow of "Swirl Radio," and In the Life Media executive director Michelle Kristal. BAR contributing writer Donna Sachet is the moderator.
Finally, the PBS American Experience’s “Stonewall Uprising” is the topic of an afternoon session. Associate producer Eric Marcus and journalist Lucian Truscott will discuss how they turned a seminal event in gay community history into a documentary. Then a Village Voice reporter, Truscott covered the 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Independent documentary director Christie Herring is the moderator.
Altogether, some of the LGBT Media Summit’s emphasis on social networking carries over into broader convention programming, “with no less than four social media sessions,” said executive director Tune, including a digital storytelling boot camp, a session on search engine maximization, a discussion about “3G journalism” and filing from a smart phone, and a conversation about breaking news in the digital world.
Sure enough, convention programming does not neglect some of journalism’s basics. Sean Bugg, co-publisher of Washington, D.C.-based Metro Weekly, moderates a discussion on how to write stories using appropriate and inclusive language for the communities that LGBT journalists cover.
Additionally, Bajko and CTNOW.com web producer Douglas R. Stewart – summit chair and convention chair, respectively – have added a special Saturday panel to address the unfolding legal landscape of California’s Proposition 8 lawsuit, now before a federal appeals court. Panelists include Jennifer C. Pizer, senior counsel and marriage project director for Lambda Legal; Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; and Chronicle legal reporter Bob Egelko.
The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association announced the winners of its 2010 Excellence in Journalism Awards. A number of award recipients are members of LGBT media.
Kerry Eleveld of the Advocate won the prestigious Sarah Petit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media. The award is named for the late Newsweek journalist and founding editor of Out magazine. Of Eleveld’s work, NLGJA’s judges noted that she is to be “commended for pushing for a D.C. bureau for the Advocate. From a unique place inside the White House, she’s consistently making news and controlling the direction of news stories.”
Philadelphia Gay News won two awards. Reporter Jenn Colletta won the Excellence in News Writing Award for her piece, “Researchers: Gays Excluded from Clinical Trials.” SCOTT A. DRAKE won the Excellence in Photojournalism Award for “PDA With a Purpose.”
Jacqueline Gares and Amber Hall of PBS’ “In The Life” won the Excellence in Network Television Award for the show’s “40th Anniversary of Stonewall.”
Sirius XM OutQ’s news team – Tim Curran, Aaron McQuade and Dave Gorab – was given an honorable mention in the Excellence in Radio category.
POZ magazine’s Jennifer Morton was given an honorable mention in the Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage category for her “How Stigma Kills.”
Award recipients will be feted at NLGJA’s 20th Anniversary Gala in San Francisco on Sept. 4.
— Fred Kuhr
In spite of the current economic recession, advertising revenues at gay press outlets hit a record high, a truly remarkable feat considering the economy’s overall adverse effect on the media industry.
The recently released “2009 Gay Press Report” found that spending in LGBT publications indeed rose 13.6 percent, topping off at $349.6 million in ad revenues, a new record. Revenues the previous year were $307.7 million.
By way of comparison, revenues in consumer magazines dropped off 15.6 percent, falling to its lowest level since 1998.
While overall ad revenues rose, the report also showed that the number of ads placed in LGBT media decreased by 6.8 percent in comparison to 2008. Overall placement of larger ads, the study found, accounts for the revenue increases despite the lower numbers of ads placed.
"The numbers do not lie, and even I was surprised at how gay media held its own in such a tough market,” said Todd Evans, president and chief executive officer of Rivendell Media (as well as publisher of Press Pass Q). “Gay media sales have always doubled in past recessions as companies focus their media on their best customers. While we didn’t see that kind of increase this year, the numbers are still significant."
“The findings in the report confirm the strength and value of gay media,” said Prime Access founder and chief executive officer Howard Buford. “Advertisers are finding the market to be a solid investment, and many publications in the gay press have increased ad revenue despite a very difficult media market.”
New Jersey-based Rivendell Media is the nation’s largest LGBT ad placement firm. New York City-based Prime Access is the leading advertising agency for reaching the gay and lesbian market. Together, the two companies produced "The 2009 Gay Press Report," which is the 16th annual edition.
"The 2009 Gay Press Report" also found a striking increase in ads created specifically for LGBT consumers. Specific ads openly portray and target lesbian and gay consumers, their lives and families through artwork and copy. In LGBT publications overall, gay-specific ads hit an all-time high of 61.9 percent – way up from only 10 percent in 2002.
“Gay specific advertising is by far the most effective with this audience, producing the biggest return of investment," said Buford.
"The 2009 Gay Press Report" covers all of 2009, a year that saw major economic upheaval and significant gains for LGBT civil rights, particularly marriage equality.
Here are some other key findings in "The 2009 Gay Press Report":
"The 2009 Gay Press Report" tracked all advertising – local, national and regional, including classified ads. The report relies on publications' open rate cards and publication issues for April, the study’s benchmark month, which is considered a good average time period and from which the formula for the year is extrapolated.
The report’s value, said Rivendell’s Evans, is “the snapshot it gives of gay media, and because it promotes the gay market as a whole and thus helps everyone gay media.
“The biggest problem for those in gay media – or those that want to get into gay media – is they read the numbers and don't really read the report and mistakenly think all of this is national advertising spending when only a small percentage of the total spent is national advertising – that holds true as well for mainstream media coverage of the report too – and that can also create unrealistic expectations. My take is that a lot of the increase in ad size is due to added value upgrades of advertisements, which cannot be tracked, and if you look at the year as a whole, it was not until after April that the bottom fell out of the ad market – so realistically the formula could be off a bit for 2009 having never had a media year quite like that. Still, we held our own and the numbers were not awful – and that is something.”
For the full report, go to http://rivendell.com/documets/gaypressreport2009.pdf
— Chuck Colbert
Instinct magazine? There’s an app for that
Instinct magazine has become the first gay magazine to introduce an iPad application.
The publication launched its newest digital initiative with its June issue. Instinct unveiled its July/August iPad application on July 14, and readers can download each issue from iTunes for $2.99. The new Instinct iPad application will be available every month with the launch of new issues and will feature everything inside the magazine.
Publisher J.R. Pratts said that Instinct readers have responded very well to the new application.
As media continues to evolve, social media sites, iPhones and other new technologies and applications are becoming increasingly important ways that LGBT publications and other outlets can tap into their increasingly tech-savvy readership.
Apple unveiled the iPad to much fanfare in April, and Pratts said Instinct’s new application allows the publication to further capitalize upon this trend.
“You have to find a way to deliver a lifestyle publication that is immediate and cost effective. And that’s the iPad for us,” he said.
Pratt added that cost, production time and the need to find “ways to distribute magazines without going through traditional systems” continue to facilitate the need to turn to the iPad and other devices.
“Most magazines are applying for the app,” he said. “We were just lucky because we submitted [to Apple] first.”
— Michael K. Lavers
Minneapolis publication criticized for “outing” anti-gay pastor
A Minneapolis magazine has reignited the “outing” debate with an article that reported an anti-gay minister had attended several meetings of a Roman Catholic “gay-chastity” organization.
Lavender Magazine’s John Townsend reported in his June 18 article “Antigay Lutheran Pastor Protests Too Much” that he first met the Rev. Tom Brock, an associate pastor at Hope Lutheran Church, during a Faith in Action meeting at a suburban Minneapolis Catholic church in April. The group, which is affiliated with Courage, models itself after Alcoholics Anonymous’ 12-step program, but Townsend reported that Brock confessed at a May 28 meeting he “fell into temptation. I was weak” during a trip to Slovakia.
At least one self-identified advertiser blasted the article in a comment posted on Lavender’s Web site.
“12-step programs, regardless of what is at issue or who attends, are sacred,” wrote the advertiser. “This isn’t journalism, this is tabloid.”
Several readers, however, applauded Townsend’s story.
“Thank you for this excellent article, exposing the hypocrisy of this man,” wrote one reader. “He is truly sick, and I feel some sympathy for his self-loathing, but he has done an enormous amount of damage to others and needs to be called on it.”
Lavender did not respond to Press Pass Q’s request for comment, but Townsend responded to the controversy in a letter the magazine published after it ran the story.
“Brock’s bully pulpit has assaulted gays and lesbians and heterosexual reproductive-rights advocates for years,” wrote Townsend as he outlined what he described as “tips about psychological abuse” at the FIA meeting Brock had attended, including one man who reportedly said he had contemplated suicide.
“So for me, it was clear that becoming an embedded whistleblower was the only option left,” he wrote. “That way, I could more accurately verify the truth than to write about it from the outside. To my mind, quite reasonable suspicion of real danger trumped confidentiality.”
Brock is the latest anti-gay figure that reporters have “outed” in recent months. The Miami New Times photographed George Alan Rekers, co-founder of Focus on the Family, with a “rent boy” at Miami International Airport in April after the two reportedly returned to the United States following a 10-day trip to Europe. Rekers claimed he had hired his companion to push his luggage because he had had back surgery.
In response to Townsend’s article, National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Board member Michael Triplett questioned the ethics of the story.
“I think the story of how Courage works is an interesting one and the group has been very secretive – obviously – which means there has been little coverage even in Catholic press circles,” he wrote in a blog. “While many people disagree with their approach, … the question is whether the practice itself is so dangerous that people’s expectation of anonymity should be violated in order to expose it.”
Townsend dismissed Triplett’s categorization, but Michelangelo Signorile, who discussed the controversy with Lavender publisher Stephen Rocheford on a recent edition of Signorile’s Sirius XM radio show, said the Brock story has left him conflicted, raising questions about the ethics of “outing,” while highlighting the question of whether exposing Brock and other anti-gay officials’ homosexuality amounts to activism on behalf of the LGBT community.
Brock returned to his pulpit in early August, but Rocheford stressed to Signorile that his reporter’s story effectively silenced Brock’s anti-gay rhetoric.
“They see it as a success,” added Signorile. “That is hard to argue with because I think when you have somebody who is attacking other people’s lives and other people’s sexual orientation, I do think the argument you shouldn’t do this or shouldn’t do that begins to argue thin. [Brock] being exposed did stop him from doing that.”
— Michael K. Lavers
Publication Name: Gay Parent magazine (GPM) was first published in 1998 and Gay Parent magazine-New York (GPM-NY) was first published in 2003
Location: Queens, N.Y.
Geographic coverage area: GPM is distributed nationwide and GPM-NY is distributed in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
Staff size and breakdown: A staff of three people with freelance writers and photographers
Physical dimensions of publication: 8.25” x 10.75” no-gloss newsprint
Average page count: 26 pages
Key demographics: 45% gay men, 50% lesbians, 6% bisexual women (mostly) and men who are transgendered; 54% between 30 and 39, 24% between 40 and 49, and 22% between 21 and 29
Print run: 10,000 copies of GPM every two months; 5,000 copies of GPM-NY once a year
Website: GayParentMag.com
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PPQ: What part of your publication is the most popular?
Publisher/editor Angeline Acain: I'm not really sure. People have told me they read it cover to cover, probably because it is not a lot of pages. I strive to feature parents of color on at least half of the covers each year and have received positive feedback about this.
PPQ: What challenge has your publication had to overcome over the past few years, and what challenges are you facing right now?
Acain: Keeping my website updated is a challenge as well as bringing the number of emails in my inbox down and keeping the paperwork on my desk tidy. I tell people I have my own system of filing – the important papers are on the top of the pile. Otherwise, having been in the publishing business for nearly 20 years, I tell myself to stay calm when issues arise because they eventually get resolved.
PPQ: How has your publication changed since it was first launched?
Acain: Since I first launched GPM, the page count and color pages increased with most of my issues. Also, I launched sister publication GPM-NY four years later. Through the years I've created issues with themes, and last year I actually started another non-LGBT magazine called Queens Karma. In the spring when I publish GPM-NY, I am juggling three different publications, getting them ready for the printer and meditating to stay focused.
PPQ: On the Kinsey Scale of 0-6 [exclusively straight to totally gay], how gay is your publication?
Acain: GPM is totally gay or LGBT. I'd give it a 6. With a name like Gay Parent magazine, I don't think anyone would think it was a magazine for the nuclear family. I get a few phone calls thinking my publication is Parent magazine. You should hear the shock in their voices when I say this is Gay Parent magazine! My focus is to feature articles only on LGBT parents or their children. I will feature an advertorial type of article, but will suggest to the writer to try to tailor it to my readership.
PPQ: Do you see yourself an "activist journalist"?
Acain: I don't consider myself a journalist, but with the population I cater to and with the name I've given my publication, I have to say I do feel like an activist. My initial intent was not to be an activist, but over the years I've received creepy disgusting hate mail saying that it is bad enough that we want to get married but now we want to have children? So I do relish publishing on my covers, for all the world to see, two women getting married, dads dressed in drag, a transgender parent, or a gay male couple or lesbian moms with their seven children who they want to adopt but can't because the law forbids it.
PPQ: What's the most surprising feedback you've received from a reader?
Acain: I've received feedback that has left me pleasantly surprised. One of the earliest emails was from a woman living in the Midwest who thought she was the only gay parent in her area. Finding my publication gave her hope and encouragement to start a support group. I've received mail from college-age readers saying my publication gave them confidence to raise children when they meet "Mr. Right." I was amused to receive an email from a young queer-identified woman who wanted to be a pregnant model for GPM. Her belly wasn't really showing a lot, but I think I made her day by featuring her in my publication.
PPQ: What advice do you have for others working in LGBT media?
Acain: My point of view may not apply to everyone in the LGBT media but here it is. When selling advertising space, be persistent and positive. Even if companies are saying they have to cut their advertising budgets because of the economy, know that someone else will come along and purchase advertising space from you. If you feel that your ad dollars are going down because of the economy, that is what is going to happen to you. If you stay positive and know your current advertisers will reorder and you will get new advertisers as well, it will happen. If it doesn't happen, you should not be selling ad space
I just read Chuck Colbert's article about Mike Lavers' piece in the Village Voice (“Reports of print media’s death greatly exaggerated: LGBT print media obituary in Village Voice rankles editors and publishers,” July 2010), and I'm deeply disappointed that he left out most of our conversation.
Being an online publication, there's no excuse to leave out essential information, which brings up the fact that it was the exigencies of print that left Lavers' "full disclosure" on the floor, as it were.
I also pointed out to Colbert that the article specifically referred to the Blade's Lou Chibarro Jr. and the Advocate's Kerry Eleveld as being journalistic rock stars, which they are.
I'm a total print freak. I buy books – no Kindle! – and magazines and pick up Gay City News and Next and every other gay publication here in New York on my corner whenever a new issue comes out. But the fact remains that all print media is going through a shakeout.
Steve Weinstein
Freelance writer
Editor in chief
noiZe magazine
Edge Media
New York, NY
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BLACKLIGHT, the first black LGBT publication in Washington, D.C., marks its 31st anniversary in August 2010.
FRONTIERS IN L.A., based in Los Angeles, reformatted and upgraded from newsprint to all gloss paper with its May 5, 2010, issue.
GO, based in New York City, celebrated its eighth anniversary with its May 2010 issue.
HERE MEDIA has promoted JOE VALENTINO and DAVID POSEGAY to vice presidents. Valentino previously served as associate publisher. Posegay was previously the company’s advertising director.
BRIAN MCNAUGHT, a columnist for SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS, and partner RAY STRUBLE have donated their extensive 36-year collection of LGBT artifacts to the Stonewall Library and Archives in Fort Lauderdale.
OUT & ABOUT NEWSPAPER, based in Nashville, Tenn., has chosen veteran journalist JOE MORRIS as its new managing editor. Also, JOHN LASITER has been promoted to advertising sales manager.
OUTFRONT COLORADO, based in Denver, celebrated its 34th anniversary with its April 7, 2010, issue.
OUTLOOK MEDIA, based in Columbus, Ohio, has won the American Marketing Association Columbus Chapter’s Achievement in Marketing Awards for best research-driven marketing campaign.
MIKE TAUBER, an arts writer for California’s ORANGE COUNTY & LONG BEACH BLADE, unveiled a new mural called “Laguna Locals” installed at a Whole Foods Market location.
THE WORD, based in Indianapolis, Ind., and GAYINDY.COM have launched a print and electronic collaboration that will allow both outlets to share content and advertisers.
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CHUCK COLBERT is a freelance journalist based in Cambridge, Mass. He is a longtime contributor to the National Catholic Reporter and covered the crisis of clerical sex-abuse in the Boston archdiocese. Previously a senior reporter and columnist for the former In Newsweekly, he is a contributor to Keen News Service and Boston Spirit Magazine. Also, he has written for major mainstream daily newspapers and magazines, including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. He can be reached at crciiiund@aol.com.
FRED KUHR is an editor, reporter, performer and personal trainer based in Toronto. He has written for The Advocate, AdWeek, Toronto-based Xtra, and Boston Spirit Magazine. He has also served as editor of now-defunct publications In Newsweekly (based in Boston) and Out in the Mountains (based in Vermont). He has served as a news analyst on the Fox News Channel and CBC Radio, as well as other media outlets. Fred blogs about politics and pop culture at the FredBlog at www.fred-blog.com and has been rated one of the top Twitterers of “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance.”
MICHAEL K. LAVERS is the National News Editor for EDGE Publications. His work has appeared in the Fire Island News, the Guide, the Village Voice and other LGBT and mainstream publications around the world. He has also provided commentaries on LGBT issues to the BBC, “The Brian Lehrer Show” on WNYC in New York, “La Razón” in Spain and other media outlets. He also blogs at Boy in Bushwick, which can be found at www.bushwickboy.blogspot.com.
DAVID WEBB worked for both mainstream and alternative media during his 25-year career, including LGBT newspaper Dallas Voice for seven years as a staff writer and news editor. He now lives on Cedar Creek Lake southeast of Dallas. In addition to freelancing, he authors the blog therarereporter.blogspot.com.
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