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Please read my latest blog post at Out & About Illinois: A crazy week for LGBT Media as a giant goes under . Phil Reese November 20, 2009--For over three decades the Washington Blade was the go-to weekly political news source for the American LGBT community that was unrivaled in prestige and access for much of that time. And today it doesn't exist anymore . In fact, the Washington Blade disappeared with some long-standing bastions of the LGBT journalism pantheon: the South Florida Blade , 411 Magazine , David Magazine , the Houston Voice , and the extremely respected Southern Voice . This Monday all of these institutions suddenly ceased to exist at once as the Small Business Administration decided to close down their parent company, Window Media. Window Media had been forced into receivership late last year, and we've known since at least February that they were in trouble. However, there was no warning for what happened on Monday. Folks showed up to work as they di...

My latest Bilerico Post-- BREAKING: WASHINGTON BLADE, SOUTHERN VOICE CLOSED IN WINDOW MEDIA DEMISE Disturbing news this morning. Window Media--the Publisher of the Washington Blade , the South Florida Blade , the Houston Voice , the Southern Voice , David Atlanta and 411 Magazine --has officially closed its top publications: The Southern Voice , David Atlanta and the Washington Blade . At publishing time I had not received any confirmation on Houston Voice or The South Florida Blade 's closure (both their websites were down once again, most likely due to high traffic), though an update on Fresh Loaf from former Southern Voice Editor Lauren Douglass-Brown confirms that all Window Media publications are affected. The Blade website has been up and down all morning, presumably because of increased traffic from this story, but their Twitter feed officially confirmed the bad news... VERY IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE READING BREAKING: WASHINGTON BLADE, SOUTHERN VOICE CLOSED IN WIN...