Much gay media, especially regional/local, many of them free, is advertiser-oriented and any articles as such are considered just filler. With printing costs rising and advertising dollars falling (as with newspapers in general, that $$ is gravitating to the internet) what's a publisher to do? Free filler articles are quite tempting.

1) yes, it's a matter of money. Most gay newspapers operate on a shoestring. Free editorial is free.
2) most of these arts pieces are just blowjobs anyway. would jason serinus have written a critical article about a lesbian singer in a gay publication? would it have been published?
3) do you really REALLY think the mainstream press is any different? Do you read any Conde Nast magazines or the NYT Styles section or real estate or automotive???

As a journalism refugee (mainstream reporter in a mid-sized east Georgia town--thank God I got out and moved to Atlanta), I didn't realize how bad it was in the gay press as it was in the MSM.

Virtually every gay business or charity I've encountered, worked with or tried to give business to is equally lazy. Gay owned and operated usually means greedy, lazy, egotisical, stupid fucks.

But I still encourage my client to spend with gay media, because we need the visibility.