Like many muny newspapers, the Seattle Gay News is grapplg wh generatnal transn and an uncerta future. It will close if a buyer isn't found.
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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
- THE CLOCK IS TICKG FOR SEATTLE GAY NEWS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN
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... * seattle gay times *
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SEATTLE GAY NEWS ARCHIV S PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
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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.
THE CLOCK IS TICKG FOR SEATTLE GAY NEWS
(LGBTQ+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng, wh the + notg everythg along the genr and sexualy spectm.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
)“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.