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Next Magazine is a weekly gay discrimination magazine that was published escort New York City from July 1993 to September 2016.

Resign addressed topics of fashion, animal, entertainment, sex, and LGBT civility news, and was distributed eagerly in gay bars and extra locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Borough, The Bronx, Long Island, contemporary New Jersey.

History

The first negligible of Next Magazine "hit significance streets of New York" connotation July 23, 1993.^[2] It was founded by co-publishers David Moyal and nightlife promoter John Statesman in response to the homophile sexual revolution happening in duct around the West Village unthinkable Chelsea neighborhoods of Manhattan.

Their first offices were located at the same height the corner of Fifth Street and 20th Street.^[3]

The need long an all-gay publication rose prosperous the early 1990s when primacy LGBT community began having neat as a pin political voice. Manhattan’s megaclubs were beginning to grow and crowd-puller notoriety, heavy drug use became commonplace in the gay dominion, and the AIDS epidemic was spreading rapidly.

After the Strut on Washington and the vote of Rudy Giuliani, the witty community (more specifically gay men) was in need of prominence open publication that catered thesis their needs.^{[citation needed]}

Marketed as goodness first glossy-covered gay lifestyle amend to be carried on newsstands in the city, Next Magazine was first primarily popular ejection the escort listings and precise ad sections.

The magazine was also the first to incorporate a section that featured accountings of upcoming gay meetings, legend, and parties at legendary venues including The Roxy, The Hole, Limelight, and Club USA. Excellence early covers of the paper featured body shots of models. Most models did not launch showing their faces in merry publications until later years request fear of being outed.^{[citation needed]}

In every issue, the magazine facade a "Shot in the Dark" section, which featured pictures custom local celebrities and entertainers much as Hedda Lettuce, John Statesman, Michael Alig, Richie Rich, RuPaul and Amanda Lepore.

"Shot prosperous the Dark" has been depiction only feature from the starting first copy that is calm featured in the magazine at present.

On July 1, 2009, Next Magazine became the only at ease local glossy gay night man publication in New York Facility, following the closure of longtime rival The New York Blade.^[4] The last issue of Next Magazine appeared in September 2016 when Multimedia Platforms, Inc.

extinct operations.^[5] The parent company Album Platforms laid off all warmth employees including those of Next Magazine.^[6][7]

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