Activist and pneer Mark Segal started 'Philalphia Gay News' 1976, and has ntued to transform LGBTQ media ever sce.
Contents:
- PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
- JOB POSTG: EDOR, PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
- MARK SEGAL, THE PNEER WHO REVOLUTNIZED GAY MEDIA, WANTS LGBTQ JOURNALISTS TO GO LOL
- THE PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
- NEW HISTORIL MARKER REGNIZ PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS’ 45 YEARS OF JOURNALISM, ACTIVISM
PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
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Philalphia Gay News The Philalphia Gay News is the area’s largt and olst publitn targetg the LGBTQ+ muny. Found by Publisher Mark Segal 1976, Philalphia Gay News has been a part of Philalphia's thrivg LGBTQ+ muny for s.
JOB POSTG: EDOR, PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
We strive to make the LGBTQ+ muny more rmed about rourc the muny and to te the non-gay muny on who we are. The Philalphia Gay News, one of the olst and most award-wng LGBTQ newspapers the untry, seeks an experienced Philalphia-based edor who will oversee all facets of the weekly productn of PGN’s prt and digal publitns. The Philalphia Gay News provis a full benefs package cludg health, ntal, and 401k.
MARK SEGAL, THE PNEER WHO REVOLUTNIZED GAY MEDIA, WANTS LGBTQ JOURNALISTS TO GO LOL
About Philalphia Gay News. The Philalphia Gay News is one of the olst and most award-wng LGBTQ newspapers the untry.
PGN has won awards om the Society of Profsnal Journalists, Keystone Prs Awards, Natnal Newspaper Associatn, and the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn among others.
Gay or straight. I imaged that jt the physil prence of that paper some of those plac, the actual word Gay s tle, mt have been enough to shock when land. Its physil prence was ed as a sort of gui to the gay world, a world that many journalists uld not cipher on their own.
THE PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
No one ever said a word about them, but I saw them and was like someone standg on a street rner shoutg “e back, there are gay people like you here! ” Y, was a sh to be part of that pack, but what was more important is that gay people were physilly the room takg a seat at that table.
They weren’t llg me back, of urse, they were llg PGN back and talkg to an actual homosexual, which was a first for many of them the not too distant ‘90s. The most important thg is that the Philalphia Gay News is the room, at the table and holdg the powerful to acunt. To be sure, the LGBTQ muny is not a homogeno group wh a sgular perspective and approach, and the muny don’t necsarily agree on what the most prsg problems are or what the solutns should be.
We saw the same people takg the mic, wavg the flags and huggg their iends that we saw at muny meetgs, out the Gayborhood, and at heargs and trials for s we vered. Edor-In-Chief for Philalphia Gay News was the most important tle I’ve held my reer. I pass through the Gayborhood daily on my mute for work and see overwhelmg ignorance, ignorance that kills people.
NEW HISTORIL MARKER REGNIZ PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS’ 45 YEARS OF JOURNALISM, ACTIVISM
The Philalphia Gay News is the largt weekly newspaper on the East Coast targetg the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, and the most award-wng and olst LGBT publitn the untry. Employe at The Philalphia Gay News.
Jason Villemez is the edor of the Philalphia Gay News and wr equently on LGBTQ history. Exod and the Ex-Gay Movement. I vered the burgeong “ex-gay” movement — a movement former Vice Print Mike Pence supported.
TV producers were only too happy to stoke ratgs by puttg a pretty 20-somethg lipstick lbian who was happily gay on TV wh “Philalphia Gay News reporter” unr her name on the chyron and p her agast dour, unsg ex-gay men and women claimg homosexualy uld be “cured. At PGN I exposed a lot of the ex-gay crowd, like those nng the group Exod, and their pattern of g the dangero psdoscience of nversn therapy, also lled reparative therapy. As recently as 2019, I vered the Philalphia Archdce — embolned by the Tmp admistratn and still led by the vilently anti-LGBTQ Charl Chaput — featurg an ex-gay mistry through s tn servic.