After beloved longtime edor Gee Bakan died last year, his dghter, Angela Crag, hered the Seattle Gay News and hired some new people. The publitn is movg forward, strivg to...
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- SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN
- SEATTLE GAY NEWS ARCHIV S PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN
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Seattle Pri Magaze is produced partnership wh Seattle Gay News. When Gee Bakan, the edor and publisher of Seattle Gay News sce 1982, died June 2020, thoands of people the LGBTQ+ muny Seattle grieved. Bakan, known as “the Governor of Capol Hill, ” ma the weekly newspaper Seattle’s leadg source of rmatn about the AIDS epimic the 1980s durg a time when many news sourc blamed gay people for the disease they lled “gay ncer.
” He also created a place where Seattle’s LGBTQ+ muny uld feel a sense of solidary when many stat still had laws place agast gay sex.
SEATTLE GAY NEWS ARCHIV S PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
(LGBTQ+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng, wh the + notg everythg along the genr and sexualy spectm. )“Gee and the SGN documented and wnsed our llective stggl and acknowledged our existence and humany at a time that few wanted to see , ” says Fred Swanson, the executive director of Gay Cy, the long-standg Seattle LGBTQ+ rource center.
A voted activist and lear the LGBTQ+ muny, Bakan over the s grew the Seattle Gay News om a small muny newsletter to a newspaper wh a weekly circulatn as high as 13, 500. And though the publitn vered the LGBTQ+ muny better than any other publitn Seattle, Bakan’s staff was maly gay, whe men, says Renee Raketty, a transgenr woman who was the managg edor of the publitn om 2005 to 2007. The bs is also still reverg om the fancial issu ed by the panmic and Bakan’s health problems by updatg s webse and social media prence, and by creasg s young rearship, says Crag, the new publisher and owner of Seattle Gay News.
Last December, they joed Seattle Gay News as a reporter. But they also say SGN wasn’t always reprentative of the full breadth of the LGBTQ+ muny Seattle, and their foc is now on “the voic that have been stepped on by the cisgenr, whe, gay muny.