Bay Area reporter
| Bay Area reporter
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| description | LGBT magazine (regional) |
| publishing company | Benro Enterprises, Inc. (limited liability) |
| First edition | 1971 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Widespread edition | around 150,000 reader copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Cynthia Laird |
| editor | Thomas E. Horn |
| Web link | Bay Area reporter |
Bay Area Reporter ( BAR ) is an American LGBT - weekly newspaper in the territory of the San Francisco Bay Area appears.
history
The newspaper was first published on April 1, 1971 by Paul Bentley and Bob Ross. The newspaper was initially distributed in gay bars in several parts of San Francisco: South of Market , Castro District and Polk Street . The newspaper is currently being distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The BAR has grown to be one of the oldest, largest, and most recognized LGBT community newspapers in the United States.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the AIDS crisis was a main topic of the BAR. In 1998, BAR announced the world-famous headline No Obits in a weekly edition . For the first time in a week, the newspaper had not received a new AIDS death report that year because of the successful new HIV treatments. Founding member Bob Ross died in 1993. His work is currently being continued by Thomas Horn as editor. On March 30, 2006 there was an anniversary edition for the 35th anniversary of the newspaper.
content
The newspaper covers LGBT news, people, health, politics, law, art and music. The BAR is read by around 100,000 readers every week. The newspaper is based on Ninth Street, San Francisco. It is owned by Benro Enterprises, Inc. The editor-in-chief is Cynthia Laird . Other authors include Matthew Bajko , Zak Szymanski (until 2006), Mark Mardon (until 2006), Roberto Friedman , Jim Provenzano , Seth Hemmelgarn and Marcus Hernandez . The BAR is a member of the National Gay Newspaper Guild .