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Earlier this week Claudia Cahalane wrote an interesting article in The Guardian asking whether gays and lesbians really require their own specialist publications.

Of late, lesbian and gay title's circulation figures have been increasing, just check out what she means on the link below. In the past year in London alone I have seen four new free gay rags launch, Out In London has doubled in size, Pink Paper has introduced its digital news version, Pink News has expanded on its blogs and Attitude has a new editor.

So there is still life in gay mags, even more so than magazines in general. Nearly every consumer title in the UK has lost some of its readers to the internet. We are now the readers, the money holders and where the advertisers need to begin to reach - however so many now deny the Pink Pound exists.

Check the aricle - what's your thought?

Comments (1)

Greenhippo 09-09-2008

I think that there is space for new, quality gay mags - not the type which are devoted to ads but those which actually address issues and provide information of interest.

As for online v offline - those offline publications are valuable. Lots of people still reading mags/newspapers on the tube/train. Who wants to peer at a screen in the morning? It would be great for some of those mainstream publications to pick up more gay-interest topics....DMGT, Trinity Mirror, etc - are you listening???

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