Just as Lavender is beginning to have some content about local/state political and community issues, an alternative publication comes on the scene. For those of you who recall the discussions on this list last spring about the sorry state of the local glbt community press, this is a welcome development indeed!
Thanks, David Strand Loring Park News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: DeAnna Miller February 1, 2002 612-721-9699 [EMAIL PROTECTED] New GLBT Publication to Launch MINNEAPOLIS, MN - DLKU, LLC, has announced that it will launch Queue Press, a new free monthly for the Twin Cities gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community on February 23, 2002, at the Rainbow Families Conference. The street date for Queue Press is February 27, when 24,000 copies will be distributed in about 400 locations throughout the metro area. The hazardous sea of Twin Cities' GLBT print media is crowded with the bobbing corpses of dead publications. In about the last four years, Q Monthly, focusPOINT, Up Magazine, inQ, and Siren have all ceased publication. Before that were Equal Time and GLC Voice. Publisher DeAnna Miller urges a jaded public to stifle the inevitable yawn. "I understand the skepticism some people have," she says with a laugh, "but the timing is right for us to launch now. This community is certainly large enough to support a variety of publications, and we're excited about what we're going to put out." Queue Press will be printed on newsprint and have a 14-inch high tabloid format, similar in style to the Twin Cities weekly Pulse. "Because it will start as a monthly, Queue Press will feature content that invites readers to take their time with it, rather than stuff they'd rush through over breakfast and immediately toss into the recycling," Miller says. "We've got a new comic strip from an emerging artist, features and commentaries by local writers, and a couple things you might not expect to find in a typical queer publication -- like our pet columnist." One thing you won't find in queue press is "adult ads." "There are enough places to find adult ads already that no one is going to pick up a Queue Press just to find a 1-900 number," Miller says. "And by not including them, Queue Press becomes a slightly different kind of publication." ### __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
