After more than a of service to the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny, the publitn of South Florida Gay News has e to an end.
Contents:
- SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA
- SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS STAFF LOOK BACK AT LEGACY, HOPE FOR REBIRTH
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- TEAM OF NOW-FUNCT PUBLITN: SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS ‘MAY BE GONE. BUT WE ARE NOT. STAY TUNED’
SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA
TheSouth Florida Gay Newsannounced late May that would no longer publish. “When Norm Kent died April, we had hoped to ntue his legacy of hard-nosed journalism through South Florida Gay News, ” reads a note om Publisher/Edor Jason Parsley, Associate Publisher Jt Wyse and the edorial team.
Instead of ntug the publitn, members of the team told theSouth Florida Sun-Sentel they will lnch a new publitn lled Out South Florida, which is onle June 6, Out South Florida posted to Instagram, "Last week the South Florida Gay News shutdown.
SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS STAFF LOOK BACK AT LEGACY, HOPE FOR REBIRTH
South Florida Gay News released s last issue on May 25, 2023.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
When LGBTQ activist and South Florida Gay News founr Norm Kent succumbed to pancreatic ncer April, his team knew they wanted to keep his legacy — and the newspaper — alive. Wyse and Parsley published their last issue on May 25 and cid to shut down South Florida Gay News (SFGN).
TEAM OF NOW-FUNCT PUBLITN: SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS ‘MAY BE GONE. BUT WE ARE NOT. STAY TUNED’
"There are so many stori out there that need to be vered, and this year, this legislative ssn pecially, ’s jt been an onslght, one after the other, " Parsley says, potg to a rerd number of bills targetg LGBTQ people Florida, cludg the "Don’t Say Gay" expansn bill and legislatn rtrictg e of state funds for trans healthre. Before SFGN, Kent found another lol LGBTQ news outlet 1999, Exprs Gay News. For stance, Tony Lima, former executive director of one of South Florida’s most proment LGBTQ advocy groups, SAVE LGBT, was oted om his posn 2019 after his actns rponse to a hate crime that jured two gay men at Miami Beach Pri the year prr.