Lavender Media
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Lavender Media is a Minneapolis, Minnesota
based media company that began with the 1995 launch of Lavender
, a biweekly magazine for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT
) population of the Twin Cites area.
The magazine was tailored for the Minnesota
market
; Minneapolis has the second-highest percentage of LGBT population in the nation, and among large metro areas, the 2000 Census ranks Minneapolis as having the third-largest concentration of gay and lesbian couples.
Lavender Media has grown to include the magazine itself and its online component, as well as a Yellow Pages Edition, and the Lavender Pride Edition, the largest pride publication in America with more than 350 pages. The company also creates and distributes Wanda Wisdom
, a daily podcast that mixes a talk show with comedic elements, and Big Gay News, a daily podcast of LGBT world news.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
based media company that began with the 1995 launch of Lavender
Lavender (magazine)
Lavender Magazine is a biweekly magazine, part of Lavender Media, published in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. It is distributed free of charge in the Twin Cites of Minneapolis and St...
, a biweekly magazine for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (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...
) population of the Twin Cites area.
The magazine was tailored for the Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
market
Gay marketing
LGBT marketing is the act of marketing to LGBT customers, either with dedicated ads or general ads, or through sponsorships of LGBT organizations and events, or through the targeted use of any other element of the marketing mix.The LGBT market comprises a group of customers who buy goods and...
; Minneapolis has the second-highest percentage of LGBT population in the nation, and among large metro areas, the 2000 Census ranks Minneapolis as having the third-largest concentration of gay and lesbian couples.
Lavender Media has grown to include the magazine itself and its online component, as well as a Yellow Pages Edition, and the Lavender Pride Edition, the largest pride publication in America with more than 350 pages. The company also creates and distributes Wanda Wisdom
Wanda Wisdom
Wanda Wisdom is the female impersonation persona of Bradley Traynor . She is a drag queen entertainer and a podcaster from Minneapolis, Minnesota.- Career :...
, a daily podcast that mixes a talk show with comedic elements, and Big Gay News, a daily podcast of LGBT world news.