News Is Out, a collaboration of six LGBTQ media representing more than 250 collective years of experience covering the community, is launching the first Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day on Tuesday, Oct.
8, during LGBTQ History Month. Donations are being accepted now through Oct. 8 at GiveButter.com/LGBTQEquityFund.
The first gay publication in the U.S. started 100 years ago this year; it was Friendship & Freedom,” produced in 1924 by Chicagoan Henry Gerber and his peers.
The newsletter was shut down by police after just two issues. Later publications included ONE, Mattachine Review, The Ladder, Gay Community News, and hundreds of other LGBTQ media over the past 50 years.