TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

MATTHEW BAJKO, assistant editor at San Francisco-based BAY AREA REPORTER, won two 3rd place awards at the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club’s 31st annual awards dinner.

CURVE, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine, launched its newly redesigned website – CURVEMAG.COM – last month.

DANN DULIN, senior editor of A&U magazine, was a guest on the 4th annual POZ Cruise last month, embarking on a 7-day journey through the Caribbean. Dulin will be writing a story about the cruise and its founder, PAUL STALBAUM.

GAY LIST DAILY, an online publication available at GAYLISTDAILY.COM, launched a new localized Los Angeles edition last month. City-specific editions already include New York and Dallas.

GARETH KIRKBY, former associate publisher and managing editor of Ottawa, Ont.-based CAPITAL XTRA, has shifted responsibilities within Canada’s PINK TRIANGLE PRESS. He is now the editor in chief at THE GUIDE, the company’s U.S.-based gay travel and politics magazine. He continues his work as producer and editor in chief of XTRA.CA. MARCUS MCCANN, former news editor of CAPITAL XTRA, has been promoted to associate publisher and managing editor.

OUTHISTORY.ORG, a new website on LGBT history, made its official debut on Oct. 21.

POLITICAL IQ is the new name of the syndicated column LESBIAN NOTIONS. The name change reflects that the column is an LGBT-themed op-ed, and not lesbian-specific. Distributed by Q SYNDICATE, co-publisher of PRESS PASS Q, the column is written by veteran journalist DIANE SILVER.

POSITIVELY AWARE magazine has released its special World AIDS Day edition, which includes an interview with former UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa STEPHEN LEWIS.

DAMON ROMINE, director of entertainment media at the GAY & LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST DEFAMATION [GLAAD], wed CHARLES ROBBINS, executive director of the TREVOR PROJECT, on Nov. 2 in Palm Springs, Calif., after nine years together. It was a double wedding with Romine’s father and his partner of 16 years.

SHEWIRED.COM, a new website for women, was launched last month by REGENT MEDIA, parent company of GAYWIRED MEDIA.

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