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Written by paul
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:42 |
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 UPDATE #2: The magazine is dead but the blog will live on.
UPDATE: Unzipped blogger Zach Sire says he's waiting to update the site until the publisher releases the death certificate.
The bell tolled for Unzipped on Friday morning when its owner, Regent Media's Paul Colichman, laid off over half its staff and told those who remained that the magazine was finished.
The company is waiting to roll out the official announcement, but a couple newly-unemployed staffers leaked the sad news over the weekend to sources close to The Sword. Unzipped's blog is still up and running as of this morning, but it is likely that the two new issues currently waiting in the wings will never be printed.
I'm not sure whether th end of Unzipped's is the result of a faulty editorial strategy or whether it's part of the mass death of gay print media in general: The Advocate (another Regent Media property) is now just an insert in Out; the awful Genre (remember Genre?) is dead, and Instinct (also awful) can't be far off; Playgirl only goes to the printer now if Sarah Palin is involved; and of course there was last year's folding of Mavety Media, publisher of iconic gay skin rags like Honchos and Mandate.
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Much, much, more to come...
For years ( M.Lucas as well) has chosen to define their personal sexual taste in men as the standard for the gay community.The gay community is that of a fashion trend. When Latinos are in.. Every magazine, porn film, and advertisement is filled with Latinos. But the minute Lucas Titan etc thinks Arabs are in and Latinos are yesterdays news... It all flips.
Well if you are a dark skinned Latino, Asian, Black then you are never really in and the same gay community that asks you " To March For Equality" excludes you and makes you feel as if you were born wrong.
The world is filled with more than A&F White guys covered in tattoos and hairy muscle Middle Eastern guys.
Have you ever seen a titan film with Black on Black action? Or a Lucas film with 2 Asian guys having sex. Unzipped is a victim of racial injustice and it serves them right!
FYI - The format is changing. Why do you think Amazon and Apple or trying to set the foundation to online magazine in a I tunes/Amazon format. The same happened to CD. However, With what I said earlier. When you target one group of people and that one small group of people you cater to stop buying.. Well its makes for a even faster and well needed " Going Out Of Business Sale"!
QUESTION. Is the folding of Unzipped Mag the last of what was once Planetout's SpecPub