The Bay Area Reporter
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Owner(s) | BAR Media, Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Bob Ross |
| Publisher | Michael Yamashita |
| News editor | Cynthia Laird |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 44 Gough Street, Suite 204 San Francisco, California United States |
| Circulation | 29,000 |
| Website | http://www.ebar.com |
The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area; it is one of the largest circulation LGBT newspapers by circulation in the United States and the country's oldest continuously published newspaper of its kind.
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 from its early years of uneven editorial and news quality to become of 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 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 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 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.
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