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LPI Media (formerly Liberation Publications Inc.)〔(Four Questions for Joe Landry, SVP/Publisher, LPI Media'' ), Magazine Publishers of America, 2006-2007. Retrieved 29 December 2007. 〕 was the largest gay and lesbian publisher in the United States.〔(''PlanetOut and Publisher of the Advocate Sign Letter of Intent to Merge and Form Powerful New Media Company'' ). Business Wire. March 22, 2000. Retrieved 29 December 2007.〕 The company targeted LGBT communities and published such magazines, books, and web sites, with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year.〔 ''The Advocate'' and ''Out'' magazines were the two largest circulation LGBT magazines in the United States, each with corresponding websites; Advocate.com and OUT.com, respectively.〔 Additional publications included ''Out Traveler'', ''HIV Plus'', and LGBT penned titles through Alyson Books making it the "largest publisher of gay and lesbian print publications" and thus the largest print voice of the LGBT communities, including transgender and to a lesser degree bisexual people. They were also parent owners of Specialty Publications, which produces adult (pornography) publications ''MEN'', formerly ''Advocate Men'', ''FreshMen'', ''Unzipped'', and ''()''. Specialty Publications was one of the largest gay adult erotica web and video production companies in the world. ==History== Liberation Publications began with a police raid at the Black Cat bar in Los Angeles in 1966 prompting a handful of gay men to start a mimeographed sheet newsletter for the gay community which grew into ''The Advocate'' magazine the following year and remained the only US LGBT magazine for nearly twenty-five years.〔Judy Wieder (''Happy birthday to us - letter from the editor in chief'' ) Advocate, The. Nov 12, 2002. Retrieved 29 December 2007. 〕〔( ''PlanetOut Expands Its Universe: Gay media gets big as Web firm acquires print magazines'' ) by Dan Fost, San Francisco Chronicle. 7 September 2000. Retrieved 29 December 2007.〕 In February 2000, Liberation acquired Out Publishing Inc. which publishes ''Out'' and ''HIV Plus'' magazines.〔( THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Merger to Link Gay Print and Internet Outlets'' ) By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, The New York Times. 23 March 2000. Retrieved 29 December 2007.〕 Then president and chief executive of Liberation, James Franklin, said the deal would "move the print properties into the electronic arena." and added that the Internet was popular with gay and lesbian readers because of ''the closet factor.''〔 PlanetOut attempted in March 2000 to merge with LPI, but it was called off in March 2001. ''Out Traveler'', a magazine spin-off of ''Out'' launched in 2003. In November 2005 LPI merged with Planet Out, which mainly has developed online properties to become the world's largest media company targeting the LGBT communities. LPI's "solid accounts list of fashion, retail and consumer packaged goods advertisers" was cited amongst the strong selling points.〔 Criticism of the merger has centered on two aspects; that a consolidation of national media outlets of a minority community is unlikely to add diversity of voices and that the publications were established and supported in an effort to secure human rights for gays and lesbians but now are instead delivering a market share to corporations. In April, 2008, press reports said that the magazines published by LPI as well as the porn magazines published by Specialty Publications were to be sold by PlanetOut to Regent Releasing, which owns here!, a cable television network catering to LGBT audiences.〔 〕 A SEC filing indicates that the agreement was completed in August 2008, with Here Media Inc. the new owner of LPI, Specialty Publications, and LPI's book company, Alyson Publications〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LPI Media」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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