Categoría: Para públicos queer (o no)

«La ‘Shangay’ árabe» @mykali_mag

+ info: El Mundo

Surgió en tierra hostil como «una necesidad personal». My.Kali, la primera revista dirigida a la maltratada comunidad homosexual de Oriente Próximo y el norte de África, nació en 2007 como un desafío adolescente de Jalid Abdel Hadi, su fundador. «Por aquel entonces tenía 17 años y me era muy difícil expresarme. No fue nada calculado. Un amigo organizó un evento y, al comprar la entrada, el asistente recibía en formato PDF una copia de la revista conmigo posando en la portada», rememora Jalid desde un café del centro de Ammán.

How an LGBTQ news site has survived 16 years in digital media

+ info: Columbia Journalism Review

An LGBTQ news site, it was started in 2003 after its founder and editor-in-chief, Andy Towle, left Genre, a gay lifestyle magazine. Pronounced “toll road,” it rose to prominence during the gay blog boom of the late 90s and mid-2000s, when it became appointment reading for a devoted fanbase. “Towleroad was just a cute idea I came up with, not knowing that it was eventually going to turn into what it has,” he says.

In 2005, Towle was joined by Michael Goff, a founder of Outmagazine, who became co-owner and CEO of Towleroad. It seemed the dawn of a golden age of gay digital media; the same year brought 365Gay, a gay news outlet produced by LOGO, and The Backlot, a companion site to AfterEllen.com focused on gay and bisexual men. A few years later, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, and NBC News launched verticals dedicated to LGBTQ coverage. Other publications began paying greater attention to stories of importance to queer readers.