Gay Mag AXM Ending Print Run
There will be soon be a gaping hole on British newsstands.
Gay glossy AXM announced today that they will no longer publish their print edition and will instead shift their focus to the new-fangled internet:
Kim Watson, media director at Millivres, said: “Plans are currently in hand to relaunch AXM, its content and gay youth audience to digital media platforms with other online youth brands Puffta and Postive Adam. We will be announcing the launch of these new platforms at the end of the month.â€Tris Reid-Smith, [a] consultant editor of AXM, said: “The definitive factor is that we feel the digital media format is very attractive to the demographic we’re reaching – which is principally aimed at young gay men. We feel that format is going to be more attractive to our readers and advertisers in the future.â€
The final print edition goes to press on November 4th. Prepare accordingly.
Who gives a fuck about the crap gay press like this??
We used to have good gay newspapers in the UK, papers that actually were worthy of the name, with news, editorials etc etc. Capital Gay and the Pink Paper.
But Capital Gay folded and disappeared, and the Pink Paper turned into one of the stupid airhead publications that are just promotional copy for bars and clubs and rentboys.
Now all we have are the stupid colour super glossy free newspapers full of ads and promotions.
Still, I suppose this is indicative of the lack of need for a campaigning gay press over here anymore, since Tony Blair gave us virtually all we need in terms of law reform etc.
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it contains the forbidden in greece erotonomicon
that socked the greek public opinion with its
gay and straight sexual scenes
and the poems new york olympia and exhibition of
orthodromic retrospection
The UK mags are light years ahead of the American ones. More fun, more glossy, more varied in what they cover. Better writing. What gives with the US?