Gay Editors at Mainstream Magazines: Ghetto or Gestalt?

mediabistro.com ^ | 03.12.02 | mediabistro.com

[SauronOfMordor]

This is a transcript of mediabistro.com's March 12 panel, "Gay Editors at Mainstream Magazines: Ghetto or Gestalt?" cosponsored by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and held at New York's Obeca Li. Produced by mediabistro.com editor Albert Lee and NLGJA's New York chapter head Steve Reed (also deputy wire editor for The New York Times), the panel was moderated by Newsweek International senior editor Marcus Mabry and included:

• Arlyn Tobias Gajilan, senior editor at FSB: Fortune Small Business and a veteran reporter on gay issues for Newsweek;
• Adam Moss, editor of The New York Times Magazine;
• Maer Roshan, former editorial director of Talk magazine;

• Henry Scott, media consultant for BusinessWeek, Nest, et al, and former president and editorial director of Out magazine; and
• Emil Wilbekin, editor-in-chief of Vibe.

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It definitely feels like a heavier burden, because when I go to the ASME [American Society of Magazine Editors] meetings, I see tons and tons of gay people we all kiki and drink our white wine, and you know, "See you in the Pines, see you in South Beach."

[SauronOfMordor]

And I really DON'T want to know what "kiki-ing" is!

Well, I'll tell ya anyway. According to Lesbian Life: "Kiki is a term that was used in the lesbian bar culture of the 1950s and 1960s to describe someone who was neither butch nor femme. At that time, the bar culture was very much into roles and most women were pressured to choose either butch or femme."

So I'm guessing that, used as a verb, it describes behavior that does not peg which part of the gay subculture you're in

[little jeremiah]

Well, at least it's something that doesn't require hand sanitizing afterwards.

[Grampa Dave]

As you know I have been all over the MSM's marxist homosexuals trying to run their wet dreams as news for years.

Whenever a vile hit piece/op ed on GW, his staff, our military, Republicans, Christians and real Jews, we can enter the name of the writer + gay and enter that into Yahoo search. Most of the time the writer of the drive by hit piece has years of stories/opeds pushing the gay ageand and attacking our standards.

I know nothing about KiKi.

[little jeremiah]

Yes indeed, you have been investigating these (deleted noun) for a long time.