''The New York Blade'' was a free weekly newspaper focusing on
lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n ...
,
gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...
,
bisexual
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...
and
transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...
(
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term is a ...
) issues in
New York City, New York
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
. The ''Blade'' was a member of the
National Gay Newspaper Guild
The National Gay Newspaper Guild is an organization of LGBT newspapers located in the United States.
Through Rivendell Media, the guild gathers statistics on the readership of the member publications.
Member publications
*''Bay Area Reporter''
* ...
, and contained news, entertainment, classified ads, and free personals for men and women.
History
''The New York Blade'' was founded in 1997 as a New York edition of the ''
Washington Blade
The ''Washington Blade'' is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area. The ''Blade'' is the oldest LGBT newspaper in the United States and third largest by circulation, behind the ''Philadelphi ...
''. The paper immediately came under fire from gay rights advocates because of indications that
Wilbur Ross
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would be involved with the new venture.
The paper, along with the ''Washington Blade'', was acquired by
Window Media
Window Media LLC was a gay press publishing holding company that acquired and operated gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines in the 2000s. In 2009 it ceased operations following bankruptcy.
Publications
Newspapers
* '' South Florida B ...
, LLC in 2001, and both were then sold to HX Media in 2007.
Kat Long succeeded Trenton Straube as editor-in-chief in February 2009. The paper ceased publication in July 2009.
See also
*
LGBT culture in New York City
New York City is home to one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of ''Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day,'' wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most power ...
References
External links
LGBT Life with Full Text- Indexed and searchable in this EBSCO database that is available via libraries.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Archives Center - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender (LGBT) Collection
LGBT-related newspapers published in the United States
Defunct newspapers published in New York City
Newspapers established in 1997
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
Publications disestablished in 2009
LGBT history in New York City
1997 establishments in New York City
2009 disestablishments in New York (state)
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