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 STAFF LOOK BACK AT LEGACY, HOPE FOR REBIRTH
- SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA
- TEAM OF NOW-FUNCT PUBLITN: SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS ‘MAY BE GONE. BUT WE ARE NOT. STAY TUNED’
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS
SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS STAFF LOOK BACK AT LEGACY, HOPE FOR REBIRTH
South Florida Gay News released s last issue on May 25, 2023. 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).
SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA
"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.
TEAM OF NOW-FUNCT PUBLITN: SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS ‘MAY BE GONE. BUT WE ARE NOT. STAY TUNED’
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.
However, the state attorney and vio footage suggted otherwise, acrdg to the SFGN article, "SAVE Gala Stunner: Acced Gay Bashers Celebrated.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Police officials claimed Verdugo was fired bee he had not disclosed that he acted a 15-mute gay porn scene three years before he beme an officer. TheSouth Florida Gay Newsannounced late May that would no longer publish.
SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS
“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.
Lol NewsOUTSFL to serve LGBTQ+ muny startg JuneMIAMI – After more than a of service to the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny, the South Florida Gay News has e to an a short statement, SFGN publisher Jason Parsley, Jt Wyse, and the SFGN team announced on Thursday that was no longer “feasible” to ntue nng the publitn.
Deane School of Law at Hofstra Universy 1975 and was a proponent of legalizg marijuana the 1980s and 90s, The Miami Herald and The Sun Sentel reported on his work as an advote for vulnerable homels teenagers — some of whom had been disowned by their fai for beg, who ntued makg headl for his advocy work, was also a lumnist for Playbill magaze and he had a rad show on WFTL AM before gog to niche publishg about four years of lnchg Exprs Gay News, Kent sold to Wdow Media, which ran as South Florida Bla and later went out of 2009, The Miami Herald reported that a new LGBT newspaper was gog to lnch January 2010.