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Presidential coverage: LGBT media make investments and work together to bring party conventions and the race to readers

by Chuck Colbert | OCTOBER 2012 (Vol. 14, No. 7) | Retrieved from the Internet on October 23, 2012 by SJ


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Game on for the 2102 presidential race and key contests for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives as LGBT media outlets — both regional and national — step up to the plate to provide political coverage.

"Most editors are interested in the gay angle on the big events and developments," said Lisa Keen of Keen News Service, which provides content on law and politics for LGBT publications nationwide. Big stories for LGBT media have included the Democratic and Republican party platforms and conventions, polling trends, fundraising, and several high-profile congressional races and one Senate race where openly gay candidates have very real shots at winning.

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"There is literally no issue in the United States today in which the gulf between the two parties is wider than on the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people to legal equality," retiring Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) wrote in a recent issue of the Boston-based Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide.