The Galveston County Daily News may be losing a few readers, but Vermont-based gay paper Out in the Mountains lost all of them. Or, rather, the readers have lost the paper.

For twenty-one years, the paper has chronicles the ups and downs of Vermont's gay communities - which, we imagine, involves a few lumberjacks and a whole lotta lezzies. While poor finances and the rise of the internet (of course) both contributed to the monthly paper's demise, some wonder if there were other forces at work. Cathy Resmer reports:

[Former editor Euan Bear] acknowledges that much has changed for the GLBT community since 1985. “Who would have ever thought, even six years ago, that we would have five gay members of the legislature?” she muses. And she points out that OITM isn’t the only queer-friendly institution to fail this year: 135 Pearl, the state’s last gay bar, closed in July. “Is this the price of assimilation?” she asks...

Also, we know it's not the best time, but we'd like to offer ourselves as a replacement for Out In The Mountains. Sure, we may or may not be part of the reason the paper closed, but we're always here when you need us. Except at night and on the weekends. That's when we get naughty (read: stare at a wall).