Gay City News
[1] It was founded in 1994 as Lesbian Gay New York, later LGNY, and was sold to Community Media LLC, owner of The Villager, in 2002, which renamed the publication.The newspaper began to form in the late 1980s after the collapse of the LGBT newsmagazine OutWeek (which came into existence in 1989 to compete against the then-dominant New York Native—which itself folded in 1997).OutWeek was known for firebrand activist style journalism and provided coverage of a then nascent gay rights movement.Two years later, in 1994, Masters sought to establish a newspaper and founded LGNY (Which stood for "Lesbian-Gay New York").[5][6] Gay City News current editor-in-chief is Paul Schindler, and the associate editor is Duncan Osborne.