Lukas: The Advocate comes Out

While Justin was busy covering the closing of his favorite source of childhood pornography, some other, more relevant to us news came out: The Advocate is going away. That's right: just as Hillary now works for Barack, the stalwart of gay media mags is losing it autonomy and becoming an insert to its sister magazine, Out. (There's a pun there.)

In a way, it makes sense. The need for a euphemistic title has waned in the last decade (at this point, if you can find a straight person reading The Advocate, they'd probably be fine reading Out too), and more importantly, the internet is killing print. Not entirely, but it's no secret that us gays are early adopters, and there's nothing we've taken to better than the internet (manhunt, anyone?). So while Conde Nast has to axe it's magazines, newspapers hemorrhage money, it is logical to see a gay publication experience the worst of this shift in habit. I don't read magazines, and I hardly read newspapers. The internet is my sole source of information, and I suspect it is the same for you.

So really, I suppose it's time to say farewell. Goodbye, Advocate, thanks for the good times in my high school library looking at skanky ads targeted as yours truly, thanks for reminding us that there's still a fight to fight. You may be gone, but our struggle to find the hottest men that will pose for us continues.