How can local Q papers survive?

In the south-eastern US (DC plus Confederacy),
a chain of several queer papers has suddenly shut down.
The chain was owned by absentee capitalists.


I think queer weeklies
(and alternative "hip" weeklies, like SFBG)
should be independent and locally-controlled.
Each should depend on, and respond to, its local readership.
Independence may be less profitable in the short run;
yet more sustainable in the long run.


Some local weeklies, especially in small towns,
may not be sufficiently profitable to function as businesses;
if so, they should re-organize as non-profits.



Queerly for freedom,

Tortuga Bi LIBERTY
San Francisco
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