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40-623: Co-founded by Bob Ross and Paul Bentley on April 1, 1971, the Bay Area Reporter —known by locals for most of its history by the initials B.A.R. that were included in its nameplate until April 2011—was originally distributed to gay bars in the South of Market , Castro District , and Polk Gulch areas of San Francisco. Today, the paper is distributed throughout the Bay Area and beyond. The Bay Area Reporter has evolved to become one of

80-551: A "broad portfolio of nonprofits." In 2016, the foundation donated $ 50,000 to purchase equipment for the GLBT Historical Society to digitize and publish a complete searchable archive of the Bay Area Reporter from the first issue in 1971 until 2005 when the newspaper began online operations. The annual scholarship awarded by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association of Northern California

120-475: A September 2018 publication. Set mostly in rural Ohio in the 1970s and 1980s, it focuses on the lives of Joshua, a gay piano prodigy who gains fame for his piano solo version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," and his relationship with David, the son of a pumpkin farmer. In June 2020, he published audiobook adaptations of his novels Every Time I Think of You and Message of Love with narrator Michael Wetherbee . In September 2020, his seventh novel, Finding Tulsa,

160-949: A bachelor of fine arts in dance in 1985. While a student, he created stage works and video adaptations of dances, performed in works by fellow students and guest teachers Mark Taylor, Stephen Koester, Terry Creach. He received summer scholarships from the Dayton Ballet and Bill Evans Dance Company at Allegheny College . In 1985-1986 he lived in Pittsburgh and worked and toured with the Pittsburgh Dance Alloy . He also directed two Sam Shepard plays, Cowboy Mouth and Action as well as original performance works, in his rented expansive loft with theater seats. After moving to New York City in 1986, he performed with various modern dance choreographers, including Steve Gross and Bill Cratty , touring with Cratty's company for

200-446: A print run of 50,000). The award-winning newspaper is well known for its editorial commentary, investigative reporting, extensive sports journalism, and arts and entertainment writing. Co-founder Bentley sold his half-interest in the Bay Area Reporter to Ross in 1975, and died of cancer in 1991. Ross, who remained the paper's publisher, died in 2003. The name of the newspaper's parent company, Benro Enterprises Inc. (now BAR Media Inc.),

240-466: A weekly third section of the print and web editions. The paper celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special edition published April 8, 2011, and with a week-long mini-exhibition and slide show of historic front pages at The GLBT History Museum in the Castro District of San Francisco. The following week saw the Bay Area Reporter completely redesigned. In April 2013, it was announced that

280-654: A year, and at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard in 1987. Provenzano created his own dance, music and performance works from 1987–92 in New York and performed at Franklin Furnace , P.S. 122 , Dance Theatre Workshop, Highways in Santa Monica, and several other venues. In 1988, he directed a New Jersey production of As Is . With a fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts, he wrote, composed and set-designed

320-547: Is Roberto Friedman. Assistant editors as of 2008 included Bajko, Jim Provenzano (who also wrote a sports column from 1996 to 2006), and Seth Hemmelgarn. For many years, two of the paper's most-read columnists were Wayne Friday, whose "Politics and Poker" column was a must-read for anyone interested in following LGBT-related political goings-on at San Francisco's City Hall and in Sacramento ; and leather columnist Marcus Hernandez, better known as Mister Marcus. Friday retired from

360-690: Is an American author , playwright , photographer and currently an editor with the Bay Area Reporter . Born in Queens, New York , Provenzano was raised in Ashland, Ohio and attended Kent State University from 1979–80 as a theater major, a summer internship at Porthouse Theatre in Akron , where he performed the title role in a 1980 production of The Who's musical Tommy . After transferring to Ohio State University in 1981, he graduated with

400-538: Is named for Bob Ross. It was established in 2006. On June 28, 2010, Buckley added to his title of publisher the position of president of print, animation and digital divisions of Marvel Worldwide. In 2013, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association inducted Bob Ross into the HLGJA Hall of Fame. In 2017, The Bob Ross LGBT Senior Center was opened. It is the first in San Francisco dedicated to

440-612: The Bay Area Reporter and a key gay rights and AIDS activist in San Francisco . For his lifetime work he was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame for creating two of the "most well-respected and enduring LGBT publications in the country". Ross was born in New York City and moved to San Francisco in 1956. He was working as a chef at the time he started Bay Area Reporter in 1971 with friend Paul Bentley. In addition to

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480-518: The AIDS crisis; in 1983, the paper broke the story that up to 40 percent of people with AIDS in the United States were from racial and ethnic minorities, shattering a widely held stereotype that AIDS was a "white gay man's disease." In 1998, the paper made headlines around the world with its now-famous "No Obits" headline, marking the significance of HIV treatments by noting the first time since

520-487: The Bay Area Reporter , Ross published the long-running Gay Comix , beginning in 1985 and continuing until 1998. He was criticized by some for his more moderate policies, sometimes leaning toward the conservative, with gay rights being seen by many as a primarily liberal issue. He died December 9, 2003, due to complications from diabetes. In 1996, he established the Bob Ross Foundation, which donated to

560-506: The Bay Area Reporter , starting with the first such article published in the newspaper in 1979; many of the obituaries reflect the catastrophic toll of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco from the early 1980s through the late 1990s. In May 2010, the paper created BARtab, a monthly glossy mini-magazine focusing on nightlife events, and edited by Jim Provenzano . In 2014, the BARtab section became

600-483: The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association with second and third place in the organization's "Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media" for their collections of LGBT articles published in the Bay Area Reporter during 2006. In 2009, the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco launched an online searchable database of the more than 10,000 obituaries and death notices that have appeared in

640-474: The Reporter s (initially monthly, now weekly) LGBT nightlife guide. In March 2020, he was promoted to Arts & Entertainment Editor at the Bay Area Reporter . In December 2011, he published his fourth novel, Every Time I Think of You, about two gay teenage athletes in the 1970s, one of whom becomes paraplegic. The novel won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012. March 20, 2014, he published Message of Love ,

680-556: The 17th-floor headquarters of the San Francisco Newspaper Co. at 225 Bush Street in the city's downtown Financial District. In July 2014, the Bay Area Reporter' s staff relocated to their current location at 44 Gough Street, Suite 204, San Francisco, CA 94103. The Bay Area Reporter bases its claim as America's oldest continuously published LGBT newspaper on the fact that the Washington Blade , which

720-528: The AIDS epidemic began in 1981 that the newspaper received no death notices in a given week. With an audited weekly circulation of 29,000, the Bay Area Reporter is the fourth-largest LGBT newspaper in the United States, after New York's Gay City News , the Philadelphia Gay News , and the Washington Blade (its annual souvenir Gay Pride issue in June is the paper's biggest of the year, with

760-567: The LGBT athletics movement. Provenzano is also the author of seven novels, most notably PINS (1999) about gay high school wrestlers. The book was included in more than a dozen college reading lists, and remained among the top ten bestselling gay fiction titles in 2000. Provenzano often trained, competed and medaled with the Golden Gate Wrestling Club from 1992 to 2006. He also competed and medaled in track and field events with

800-523: The San Francisco Newspaper Co., which owned the alternative weeklies San Francisco Bay Guardian (now defunct) and SF Weekly and the daily San Francisco Examiner , agreed to purchase a 49 percent minority stake in the Bay Area Reporter . A new company, BAR Media, Inc., was created, with Michael Yamashita, the newspaper's longtime general manager, becoming publisher with a 31 percent ownership. The Bob Ross Foundation, parent of Benro Enterprises Inc., would own 20 percent while Todd Vogt and Patrick Brown,

840-674: The San Francisco Track & Field Club from 2003-2006. After being commissioned to adapt PINS to the stage, the work premiered at New Conservatory Theatre Center , running from August through September 2002. A Chicago staging took place in 2006. In 2003, Provenzano published Monkey Suits , about gay cater-waiters in 1980s Manhattan , and Cyclizen (2007) about a gay bicycle messenger in 1990s New York City , which both fictionalize his experiences in AIDS activism . Nearly two dozen anthologies published from 1998 to 2007 include his short stories and essays. In 2005, Provenzano

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880-543: The United States. Under the new structure, the Bay Area Reporter gained a larger advertiser base and an expansion of the paper's distribution to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area it had never circulated before, including Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. By October 2013, the newspaper's offices and newsroom were moved from its longtime building on Ninth Street in the South of Market area to

920-403: The dual job of Arts & Nightlife Editor. In April 2021, the Bay Area Reporter celebrated its 50th anniversary with an expanded commemorative issue that included multiple feature articles recounting highlights of the paper's coverage in news, politics, arts, and nightlife. Issuu.com In late April, 2021, the GLBT Historical Society - GLBT History Museum published an online exhibit about

960-462: The most complete collection of print issues; the first group covering 2000 to 2005 was released in January 2018, and the society projects publication of the remaining issues from 1971 to 2000 by the end of 2018. Both archives are available to all users free of charge. Bob Ross (publisher) Bob Ross (April 2, 1934 – December 13, 2003) was the co-founder and former publisher of

1000-467: The most respected LGBT community newspapers in the United States. Its annual Pride issue in June is the largest and most-read edition of the year. It also features its reader's choice awards on its anniversary in the first week of April, with a special "BESTIES: The LGBT Best of the Bay" (Renamed "The Besties") edition. In the 1980s, the Bay Area Reporter became a leading source of updated developments about

1040-641: The musical, Under the River , set in the World Trade Center 's PATH station. It played at the Ohio Theatre in September 1998, produced with Theatre Tweed . In 1989 he began working as the publisher's assistant for OutWeek magazine and also contributed his first news and arts stories for editors Michelangelo Signorile , Sarah Pettit , and Gabriel Rotello . In 1990, he became the editor of

1080-467: The needs of the LGBT senior community. This biography of an American publisher is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about a United States activist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biography of an activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer rights is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jim Provenzano Jim Provenzano (born December 6, 1961)

1120-653: The newspaper in 2005. Hernandez died in 2009. The Bay Area Reporter is a founding member of the National Gay Newspaper Guild . On March 30, 2006, the newspaper published a special edition to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Also, in 2006, columnist Provenzano received a Legacy Award in Journalism Award from the Federation of Gay Games, and returned as an assistant editor. In 2007, reporter-editors Bajko and Szymanski were honored by

1160-473: The newspaper's five decades of coverage. The series is produced by Arts & Nightlife Editor Jim Provenzano . The Bay Area Reporter is archived on two different websites. Editorial contents published weekly on the website the newspaper launched in 2005 are retained on that site in a searchable archive. In addition, the complete series of issues from 1971 to 2005 is being digitized and posted online by GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, which preserves

1200-528: The paper's 50 years, guest-curated by contributing photojournalist Rick Gerharter, titled Stories of Our Movement: the Bay Area Reporter at 50 . Through March 2022, in addition to its ongoing regular coverage, the newspaper will highlight prominent articles from each year in weekly 50 Years in 50 Weeks short articles. The newspaper also revived its YouTube channel to post short event videos, and monthly online chats focusing on various topics about

1240-458: The principal owners of the San Francisco Newspaper Co., would own the remaining 49 percent. Under the new structure, Yamashita became president and CEO of BAR Media Inc., while Thomas E. Horn, the foundation's executive director and the paper's publisher from 2003 to 2013, was named chairman of the board. Brown became the new company's vice president and chief financial officer. Yamashita is the first Asian-American publisher of an LGBT newspaper in

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1280-806: The publication's first sports writers was Gay Games cofounder Tom Waddell . Sports Complex was published weekly until 2006. The column was internationally syndicated from 2004–06. Among the topics covered were the controversies of the California AIDSRide , financial controversies and accomplishments of the Gay Games and Outgames , as well as interviews with, and articles about gay and lesbian athletes, including Esera Tuaolo , Jerry Smith , Glenn Burke , David Kopay , Billie Jean King , Greg Louganis , and several gay and lesbian Olympic athletes. Provenzano has frequently been interviewed in print, television, radio and films for his expertise on

1320-704: The publication's offshoot Hunt , an entertainment weekly, before both publications folded in July 1991. Many of his former coworkers, including Dale Peck , Troy Masters and Walter Armstrong went on to continue publishing journalism and novels. During that time, he was also a member of both ACT UP and Queer Nation , participating in protests for both organizations. He also wrote freelance arts features for Frontiers , The Advocate , High Performance and San Francisco Sentinel , including interviews with Clive Barker , Chita Rivera , and Paul Bartel . Provenzano moved to San Francisco after visiting in 1992, when he

1360-534: The sequel to Every Time I Think of You, where in Philadelphia , the lead characters Reid and Everett go through their early 1980s college years at both Temple University and University of Pennsylvania as the AIDS epidemic approaches. The novel was selected as a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2015. In May, 2016, he published Forty Wild Crushes; stories. In 2018, he contracted with Beautiful Dreamer Press to publish his sixth novel, Now I'm Here, with

1400-470: The works of art is metal bootprints along the curb which honor 28 people (including Marcus Hernandez, a Bay Area Reporter leather columnist) who were an important part of the leather communities of San Francisco. March 2020 brought a severe drop in advertising due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite two staff layoffs, the newspaper continued to publish, but with a reduced page count. Jim Provenzano took on

1440-427: Was asked to guest-curate the world's first gay sports exhibit, Sporting Life: GLBT Athletics and Cultural Change from the 1960s to Today for the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. The exhibit displayed hundreds of items from more than 40 teams, and was extended through 2006. Provenzano returned as an Editor with the Bay Area Reporter in September 2006. In May, 2010, he co-created and became editor of BARtab ,

1480-544: Was derived from a combination of Bentley and Ross. The current publisher is Michael Yamashita (who is also president and CEO of BAR Media Inc.), and the current Editor-in-chief is Cynthia Laird. Assistant editors have included Dennis Conkin, Ben Carlson, Matthew Bajko, Zak Szymanski (until 2006), and Mark Mardon (until 2006), each of whom contributed breaking news and nationally renowned articles on topics such as public health, social justice, law, race relations, transgender issues, art and music, and politics. Longtime Arts editor

1520-777: Was founded 18 months earlier than the Bay Area Reporter , in October 1969, abruptly halted publication in November 2009 following the bankruptcy of its parent company, Window Media . Employees of the Blade quickly launched a new publication, DC Agenda , and subsequently relaunched the Blade in April 2010 after acquiring its assets, copyrights and trademarks in U.S. Bankruptcy Court . The San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring leather culture ; it opened in 2017. One of

1560-479: Was offered a position as an assistant editor for the Bay Area Reporter . He completed a language certificate at Florence's Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in 1995. In 1997, Provenzano completed a master of arts degree in English/creative writing at San Francisco State University . In 1996 then- Bay Area Reporter editor Mike Salinas asked him to write a sports column to cover the LGBT athletics community. Among

1600-502: Was released with Palm Drive Publishing . The expansive novel is the faux-memoir of gay film director Stan Grozniak, who reconnects with Lance, his teenage crush from a 1970s summer theatre production of the musical Gypsy. Through 2021, as part of the Bay Area Reporter s 50th anniversary celebrations, he produced and hosted twelve monthly panels about the history of the newspaper, with dozens of current and former writers, editors, photographers and special guests. The panels are archived on

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