Frontiers gay newsmagazine closes

First off, dearest Michael, try using your spell check. It's Kingston, not Kinston. For your information the level of concern displayed by those who are finding out about the closure is surprisingly high. And I can assure you that this paper did not send billions of dollars down to LA. Somehow siphoning cash to LA was not on the agenda.

And that was not an official notice of closure, it was merely notice I was laid off, wait for that official announcement to come out later.


If you compare the LA news coverage and content you will notice that we had entirely separate news features and endorsements from those of Los Angeles. You might want to notice the very different coverage of Jerusalem Open House, Sept. 11 and the reaction to Sept. 11 in the queer community. You might also note the coverage of prison and HIV issues that came out of SF Frontiers. You might also note that SF Frontiers repeatedly broke news stories about counterfeit AIDS drugs.

You of all people should know I have been covering the queer scene in San Francisco for the past decade and half. So don't give me that rubbish about no local roots.

Finally given that you put news in quotations does that mean you had a problem with my news judgement? Funny, I always thought it was news when a member of the queer community clambered into bed with right wing homophobes like Roland Foster and Congressmember Souder.

The Norwegians have a word for a person engaging in that sort of behavior: Quisling. Are you familiar with him? try this link: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/q/quisling.asp

Tim Kingston

p.s. Enjoy your next court date.

I was never a big fan of Frontiers, but the closing of this publication in San Francisco is of no benefit to the gay community.

Regardless of its "roots" in the gay community, gay workers are out on the street looking for work. One of them is a neighbor of mine. He like all workers under the capitalist system, has to suffer the consequences of the owners' poor management.

Whether you liked the editorial line of frequently rightward tilt of the Frontiers or not, the closing of this publication makes the Bay Area Reporter the sole major paper in the gay community. Maybe the Bay Times will pick up the slack, but solidifying the hold of the center-rigthish BAR is certainly not an attractive option. Wayne Friday uber alles?

Adam

Alot of publications are having hard times right now.Its becouse of an oversaturation of publications on subject matter.And also becouse of the internet too.Even playboy is having problems.

BooHoo, no one read the rag that is why it is shutting down you moron. Capatilism is what allowed it to begin in the first place you ignorant commie queer. Investment in "gay" businesses is a bad idea, you can't get insurance for them, and all the employees eventually end up dead from aids. I think a gay funeral home would be a great idea. I sure am glad I don't live in SF, I would be constantly worn out from kicking your homo, liberal asses up and down the hilly streets all day, I'd make sure to wear my boots, I bet the majority of SF'ers could pull my shoe off my foot if I did litteraly kick them in the ass.
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Sweetness. Like the monster truck/SUV you drive, your moniker is much too much a dead give-away for your penis size, or should I say lack of, and should I say simultaneous attraction/repulsion of the big Cock-a-doodie-do ITSELF? Live. In technicolor?

You know BB (Bertha Betty? Betty Boop? Beulah Baby?), thanks to Dan Savage and the whole army of sex-positive, progressive sex advice columnists, everyone of us have ingrained into our consciousness's the "clear as a bell" reason why closet-cases like you write up to these posts.

But let me tell you Bob, things are so much better when you come out. Are you missing love? The love that dare not speak it's name in Salt Lake City? Kansas City? Minot? Well, you will find it here. We have all the love to give, plus a little extra, and we even have the backup drugs in case that doesn't do it. Granted, you may stray from the force and hook up with the evil Queens (the Log Cabin Republicans), but you will still have a home, and your "I'm in pain/I hate myself/God, I wish I had a big dick to suck on" self-hatred will be extinguished.

Until then, your fetish of writing transparent homophobic pleas for attention/self-gratification (like so much autoerotic strangulation) will just amuse us. In a sad way. But amuse. Yes. I am smiling. Hee hee. Tear.

OK, it's over. Next.