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Magazines and Newspapers
Campaigning for Equality
Gay Radio Stations
Gay Television and Cable
Events and festivals
Internet

Magazines and Newspapers

There are over 80 gay magazines and newsletters listed in the GAYtoZ Directory. The main titles are:

MONTHLY - PAID-FOR:
Gay Times (Millivres)
Attitude (Northern & Shell)
AXM
ReFresh
Bent

MONTHLY - FREE:
ManZone (CloneZone)
Scotsgay (Scotland)
G-Scene (Brighton)
3sixty (Brighton)
Zone (Midlands)
Fyne Times (Midlands)
+ve (Positive).

MONTHLY - LESBIAN;
Diva (paid-for - Millivres)
g3 (free)

WEEKLY - PAID-FOR
Time Out

WEEKLY: FREE
The Pink Paper (Millivres)
BOYZ (Chronos)
QX (Firststar).

ANNUAL:
The GAY to Z Directory (The UK's Gay Phonebook).

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Millivres has a stable of Gay Times (established over 25 years, circulation over 70,000 a month, price ?3.50, 200+ pages (60 per cent advertising, nationwide distribution), Diva (for lesbians), Zipper and Vulcan (male pin-ups), and also own Zipper Store (shop and mail order). Millivres merged with Prowler in 1999 and so their titles and shops are in the process of re-branding).

Millivres now also publish the main weekly news paper The Pink Paper (free, VFD circulation 52,400, around 40 pages (65 per cent advertising), unique employment advertising section, personal ads, nationwide distribution), Boyz (for young gay men on the scene, advertising is mainly pubs and clubs, around 80 pages (60 per cent advertising), contact ads and phone lines).

Firststar publish QX International which concentrates on the gay clubbin sceneg, with ads for escorts and contact ads.

It is clear that The Independent and The Guardian have targeted gay readers in the selection of news coverage, with The Independent including gay stories regularly, and often on the front page. Their coverage of the age of consent issue was comprehensive and daily.

Campaigning for Equality

The Stonewall Lobbying Group campaigns for homosexual equality, and played a leading role in the reduction of the age of consent to 16 years. They publish a regular newsletter which includes details of their research projects looking at relavnt issues such as harrassement and discrimination in employment, and the incidence of physical assault faced by lesbians and gay men. More details from Stonewall Magazine.

Gay Radio Stations

Several radio stations have weekly lesbian and gay programmes including GLR, GMR in Manchester and Wear FM. Gaydar Radio is now available 24 hours a day on both the internet and on Sky Digital, and provides background music, news and advertising while you cruise.

Gay Television and Cable

A whole range of documentaries, gay seasons, and other gay-orientated features now regularly appear on television (although mainly BBCFour, LivingTV, and Channel 4). Camp - and out - hosts now regularly front game shows, and gay issues are now regularly covered in soaps including Eastenders, Brookside, Emerdale, even The Archers. To most gay people it makes a pleasant change when an ordinary gay character just appears in a play or sitcom without comment - as in real life.

The commercial realities of a gay market are having an influence, note how Channel Four seem to package a range of camp or gay-popular shows together, for example around So Graham Norton or Queer as Folk. It has been suggested that Queer as Folk was not so much aimed at providing TV for a gay audience so much as making a mark for Channel Four as an 'alternative' and 'trendy' station.

Plans to launch a gay cable and satellite TV channels have had limited success so far, but two major channels are planned: faze.tv in the UK, and Logo from MTV in the USA.

Events and festivals

A number of annual festivals and exhibitions provide an opportunity to meet gay customers directly. The biggest is the Pride London every summer, featuring live music, sponsorship opportunities, market area with over 300 stalls, and dozens of marquees featuring the main gay organisations as well as companies wishing to explore the gay market, Other events include: It's Queer Up North and and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (both cultural festivals). See the GAY to Z Events Guide.

As the research on these pages confirms, gay people travel more than average, and thousands of British gay people will tarvel abroad for events such as: The Black and White Parties (New York), Mardi Gras in Sydney, Queens Day (Amsterdam), The Berlin Film Festival, and The Edinburgh Festival, and for major international conferences on subjects such as HIV or human rights.
(Source: Gay to Z Directory)

Internet

Lesbian and gay surfers were among the first to make significant use of the World Wide Web. News Groups, where people all over the world can chat to each other singly or in groups, have been established on a variety of subjects of interest to lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. And of course the opportunities to 'cruise' and make contacts have been keenly taken up. Internet sites have been set up by gay community groups and publishers.

Among the first were QX Magazine - a London club guide - and GAY to Z Directory, the search engine for Gay Britain. Other popular sites include Gay Times magazine , Gaydar (personal contacts), and gay.com (personal profiles and news).

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