''San Diego Gay & Lesbian News'' (''SDGLN'') is a

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gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. 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 ...

(

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) online news source for the

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area. ''SDGLN'' features daily news and commentary online with a weekly wrap-up of stories delivered to e-mail subscribers every week. ''SDGLN'' partners with other media outlets who contribute content. It was founded in 2009 by ''SDGLNs publisher, Johnathan Hale, and is owned by his company, Hale Media, Inc. Another LGBT newspaper in the San Diego area, the ''

Gay and Lesbian Times The ''Gay and Lesbian Times'' was a lesbian, gay, bisexuality, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the San Diego, California area. The Times was a member of the National Gay Newspaper Guild. The paper originally launched in January 1988 a ...

'', ceased publication in 2010.

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