Chris Crain Stepping Down From Blade
The Washington Blade‘s long time editor, Chris Crain (pictured), is stepping down. It seems he’s chosen love over money to be with his boyfriend in Brazil. His boyfriend, of course, can’t get citizenship here in The States.
With his departure, managing editor, Kevin Naff, will take over under new publisher, Jake Spencer. With Naff in the lead and two open editorial positions (news editor and soon the features editor position, which will be abandoned by Brian Moylan at the end of the month), now’s the time for all DC-based homo-journos to start prepping their resumes. You’ll probably want to know that The Washington Blade is owned by Window Media, which also publishes a slew of other gay weeklies, including David and 411, as well as owns a large (and often unspoken) share of HX Media, which publishes HX Magazine and The New York Blade.
Oh what an incestuous gay publishing world.
“Blade Editor To Leave Paper, US; Publisher Starts” [The Washington Blade]
Please….Crain was almost certainly forced out by Avalon Investing, which became majority stockholder sometime ago and moved William Waybourn out too.
Crain is a Republican asshoe with an ego that won’t thrive long in Brazil. I’m betting money this is just a convenient excuse for a graceful exit.
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Bob says that he is a republican? If so, why does the Blade always out Republicans? The Wash Blade will certainly go on and be just as integral to the Washington gay community as it has been for over 30 years. I have been reading it since it started.
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Um, David, if you don’t know that Chris Crain is a longtime Republican, you’ve not been reading very broadly. Crain in fact refused to out Ken Mehlman until he was embarassed into it.
I don’t know anyone in DC who doesn’t think Crain’s reorientation of the Blade into a “lifestyle publication” was a mistake.
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Did y’all pick out the worst picture you can find? Check out Chris Crain on friendster – total hottie! (Its Friday at 5pm and I’m stuck at work with nothing better to do!)