08/10/2021
One of the stalwarts of the LGBTQIA community's institutions, Gay Times Magazine has issued its final paper issue, and from now on will become an online only publication. The magazine first appeared in 1984, when it evolved from a merger between the failed Gay News and gay men's lifestyle magazine Him Exclusive. The Gay News link takes its history back to the early 1970s. The magazine's blog explained that it had been a “sad decision” to cease its print copy, but that only two per cent of readers now consumed the title in that format. Going forward, Gay Times will be an online publication appearing twelve times a year. There will also be much free content available online including hard hitting and provocative essays, analsysis, political and cultural affairs. The makers of Gay Times promise that the digital magazine will lose none of the classic magazine's bite and true to their word, their current web site includes features on Lil Nas X's erotically charged pop video, how online gay content is being censored around the world, and how anti-queer conversion therapies are hiding in the shadows even though the government is moving towards a ban on the dangerous practices.