The Advocate
The Advocate is the leading magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States . It appears every two months.
The Advocate was founded in Los Angeles in 1967 as a local magazine under the name The Los Angeles Advocate . In 1969 it was renamed The Advocate and national sales began. In 1975 the nationwide circulation was 60,000 copies. The magazine is the oldest continuously running gay publication in the United States. In 2005 the magazine was sold by LPI Media to PlanetOut . In 2008 it was sold by this to Regent Media .
The daily updated website of the magazine contains around 30 percent of the contents of the paper edition of the magazine.
literature
- Rodger Streitmatter: Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America. Faber and Faber, Boston, 1995, ISBN 0-571-19873-2 .
- Mark Thompson (Ed.): Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, ISBN 0-312-13114-3 .
Web links
- Official website of the magazine
- The Advocate 1994-2006 at Google Books
- History of the magazine ( Memento from January 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- The Advocate comes out , July 10, 2007, rainbow.at
swell
- ^ Gays on the March , Time Magazine, Sept. 8, 1975