City News Los Angeles
Encyclopedia
City News Los Angeles is a weekly newspaper created in 2001 to serve the lesbian
, gay
, bisexual
and transgender
ed (LGBT
) community of Los Angeles
, California
.
According to the official website:
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
, gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
, bisexual
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is sexual behavior or an orientation involving physical or romantic attraction to both males and females, especially with regard to men and women. It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the...
and transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....
ed (LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
) community of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
According to the official website:
City News LA is a news organization which covers the issues facing the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) community of Los Angeles. It is a multi-media news agency, as well as a print news organization, reporting on topics ranging from financial markets to hate crimes and political news.
The LGBT community relies on City News LA journalists to provide accurate, clearly sourced accounts of events as they occur, wherever they occur, so that individuals, organizations and citizens can make their own decisions based on the facts.
City News LA is published every week in the Los Angeles area and its website is maintained daily, with coverage available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.