Bay Area Reporter
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Owner | Benro Enterprises, Inc. |
| Publisher | Thomas E. Horn |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | 395 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 94103 United States |
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| Website: ebar.com | |
The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly LGBT newspaper in San Francisco.
Started in 1971 by Paul Bentley and Bob Ross as a free newspaper which was distributed to gay bars in the South of Market, Castro District, and Polk Street areas of San Francisco. The BAR has survived its early years of uneven editorial and news quality to become the oldest and one of the most respected LGBT community newspapers in the United States.
In the 1980s, it was the leading source of updated developments about the AIDS crisis; in 1998 the paper made news 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 that the newspaper received no death notices in a given week.
With an audited weekly readership of more than 100,000, the award-winning newspaper is well known for its pithy editorial commentary,investigative reporting, extensive sports journalism as well as arts and entertainment writing.
Assistant editors/staff reporters for several years include Matthew Bajko and Zak Szymanski, each of whom have contributed breaking news and nationally renowned articles on public health, social justice, law, race relations, transgender issues, and politics. Longtime Arts editor is Roberto Friedman. Longtime assistant arts editor, until 2006, was Mark Mardon; longtime sports columnist Jim Provenzano replaced him. Leather editor is Mister Marcus.
Founding publisher Bob Ross passed away in 2003. The current publisher is attorney Thomas E. Horn and the longtime editor-in-chief is Cynthia Laird.
On March 30, 2006, The Bay Area Reporter printed a special 35th anniversary edition.
The B.A.R. is a member of the National Gay Newspaper Guild.
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