LPI Media
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Publishing - Periodicals |
| Successor | Here Media |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Key people
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Judy Wieder, Corporate Executive Vice President & Editorial Director Joe Landry, Vice President & Director Publishing, Stephen Murray, Director Corporate Marketing, Jeff Lettiere, Director Circulation, The Advocate |
| Products |
Out, The Advocate, HIV Plus, Out Traveler, Alyson Books, Specialty Publications |
| Revenue |
 $$29.0 million. USD (2005) |
| Website | www |
LPI Media (formerly Liberation Publications Inc.) was the largest gay and lesbian publisher in the United States. The company targeted LGBT communities and published such magazines, books, and web sites, with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year.The Advocate and Out magazines were the two largest circulation LGBT magazines in the United States, each with corresponding websites; Advocate.com and OUT.com, respectively.
Additional publications included Out Traveler, HIV Plus, and LGBT penned titles through Alyson Books making it the "largest publisher of gay and lesbian print publications" and thus the largest print voice of the LGBT communities, including transgender and to a lesser degree bisexual people.
They were also parent owners of Specialty Publications, which produces adult (pornography) publications MEN, formerly Advocate Men, FreshMen, Unzipped, and [2]. Specialty Publications was one of the largest gay adult erotica web and video production companies in the world.
Liberation Publications began with a police raid at the Black Cat bar in Los Angeles in 1966 prompting a handful of gay men to start a mimeographed sheet newsletter for the gay community which grew into The Advocate magazine the following year and remained the only US LGBT magazine for nearly twenty-five years.
In February 2000, Liberation acquired Out Publishing Inc. which publishes Out and HIV Plus magazines. Then president and chief executive of Liberation, James Franklin, said the deal would "move the print properties into the electronic arena." and added that the Internet was popular with gay and lesbian readers because of the closet factor. PlanetOut attempted in March 2000 to merge with LPI, but it was called off in March 2001.
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