Frontiers gay newsmagazine closes

The San Francisco Frontiers gay newsmagazine has ceased operations. The "news" editor of the rag, Tim Kingston, sent out an email yesterday announcing the closure.

I, for one, am glad to see this rag stop publication. It never was of the San Francisco community, because the LA owners really had no community roots up here. The rag was designed to do one thing: send profits to LA. Well, no more.

I think it rather telling that SF Frontiers rarely had letters to the editor in its pages, which signals a deep lack of interest on the part of the local readers. This town's gay community is full of men and women who love to pontificate in print on important matters. Compare the lack of letters in SF Frontiers over the years, and which came out every two weeks, with two pages of letters every week in the BAR.

Here is the full text of Kinston's email announcement.

Michael Petrelis
San Francisco, CA



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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Kingston [mailto:sfnews [at] frontiersweb.com]
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 9:37 PM
To: tim kingston
Subject: listen up!!!!


As you may or may not know I have been laid-off from San Francisco Frontiers
News Magazine. Well actually San Francisco Frontiers News has been closed
kaput. Folded.

SO I now have a new email for story ideas work related items etc.

AND THE NEW EMAIL IS:



noseyparkernews [at] yahoo.com

so there!

You can call me at frontiers for the next couple of days....

415 487 6000 X12

Tim Kingston