Tracy Baim News Today

Members of News Is Out, a collaborative of six legacy LGBTQ+ media organizations, have expressed support and excitement about the recently announced national Press Forward effort to infuse $500 million over the next five years in support of local media.

As Pride Month comes to a close, the Sun-Times spoke to advocates, service providers and members of the LGBTQ+ community about the key issues affecting them — and what more needs to be done.

The timing could be better, with Seattle celebrating Pride Month and a vicious new culture war targeting transgender people. But the Seattle Gay News, a crusading weekly newspaper, is losing its leader and heading for closure at year end.

New York / Los Angeles, June 5, 2023 - Lambda Legal is proud to celebrate Pride Month this June by participating in events across the county, celebrating the diversity and resilience of the LGBTQ+ community and everyone living with HIV, and reaffirming our unwavering dedication to advancing legal rights as we have done for the past 50 years nationwide.

Fresh out of Drake University with a news-editorial journalism degree, I returned home to Chicago in May 1984, unsure of what kind of career I could have as an open lesbian. My stepfather worked at the Chicago Tribune, and my mom was at the Chicago Defender. They both knew gay journalists, but none were openly so.

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The problem we're facing now is that we're losing the common conversation that binds us as a society.

The nonprofit organization that owns the publication has hired Solomon Liberman to succeed Tracy Baim, who said last summer she wanted to step down.

Solomon Lieberman begins his tenure as CEO and publisher of the Chicago Reader following a tumultuous period at storied alternative newspaper.

The board that runs the Chicago Reader said Wednesday it has hired a CEO and publisher to succeed Tracy Baim, who despite a brush with disaster led the stalwart of the old alternative press era into a period of growth and financial stability.