Frontiers
Encyclopedia
Frontiers is southern California's oldest and largest lesbian
, gay
, bisexual, transgender
(LGBT
) magazine. It is distributed freely at gay bar
s, clubs and businesses throughout Southern California. The biweekly publication focuses on local, national and international news related to the LGBT community, entertainment, as well as coverage of HIV
/AIDS
-related topics and other important issues, in addition to its popular escort listings section, Frontiers4Men.
The publication has documented and reported on news events including coming out
stories of proximally close celebrities and is archived in many LGBT collections including National Transgender Library collection.
The current editorial staff includes co-editors Aaron Drake and Stephan Horbelt.
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, 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....
(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...
) magazine. It is distributed freely at gay bar
Gay bar
A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBT and queer communities...
s, clubs and businesses throughout Southern California. The biweekly publication focuses on local, national and international news related to the LGBT community, entertainment, as well as coverage of HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
/AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
-related topics and other important issues, in addition to its popular escort listings section, Frontiers4Men.
The publication has documented and reported on news events including coming out
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
stories of proximally close celebrities and is archived in many LGBT collections including National Transgender Library collection.
The current editorial staff includes co-editors Aaron Drake and Stephan Horbelt.