Zach Stafford: What Is The Future Of LGBTQ Media?

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Advocate's Editor-in-Chief, Zach Stafford talks about what the future of LGBTQ media is going to look like. He also talks about his plans to transform The Advocate, what the closing of Into means, and what Pride Media is doing to address the number of freelancers who haven't been paid for their work at Out Magazine and The Advocate. Never miss an update! Sign up for our (short!) newsletter at www.LGBTQpodcast.com Join GLAAD's movement to amend the U.S. constitution in order to provide explicit protections for women, LGBTQ people, communities of color, and those with disabilities. #EqualityAmendment LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and is part of The Advocate Magazine.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the podcast. I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQNA from The Advocate magazine.
0:11.5	Today I'm talking to Zach Stafford, who is the brand new editor-in-chief of the advocate,
0:16.2	and we have what I think is a really important and necessary conversation about the past,
0:21.7	present, and future of LGBTQ media on the whole. We also talk about his vision for the advocate,
0:27.8	his time it into, into his closing, and then we discussed the current controversy that the
0:32.3	advocate and out magazine are in surrounding unpaid contributors. So I really appreciate
0:36.8	Zach's frankness and willingness
0:38.4	to have that conversation. Now, as always, if you like the interview, please subscribe your podcast
0:43.6	and share it with all of your friends. When you do that, it is one of the biggest ways you can
0:48.6	help our show continue to grow. So thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who's done that.
0:53.1	All right, without further ado,
0:55.4	here's Zach.
1:03.3	Congratulations. This is a big accomplishment.
1:06.6	There are days when it feels like that. The other days I'm like, what am I doing?
1:09.9	Yeah. You know, I was really overwhelmed when the job was announced because it was a very, you know,
1:16.1	tumultuous moment of my life when I was leaving one position where I created the magazine
1:20.1	into with Grindr and was moving into a magazine that I'd respected for so long.
1:23.9	It was very surreal.
1:25.5	And then the article came out announcing that I got this new job
1:28.3	in NBC. And I was like breaking news, new job. And my life had never, my job had never been
1:33.1	breaking news before. And I just got this like flood of like emails and letters and notes from people
1:39.3	who were so excited. And some of the older, older older folk, especially, who I'd known had called me
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