$20K in 20 Days for the LA Blade

$20K in 20 Days for the LA Blade

Now, more than ever, it is imperative that the queer media continues to have a voice, continues to be a resource to the queer community, and continues to report the news as it relates to our lives, both on a local and national level.

As we celebrate our 9^th year in publication, the Los Angeles Blade continues to be the leading political and social resource for SoCal’s queer community. Between print and our digital presence, our team of writers, and our relationships with power partners and other minority groups in the community, we continue to represent the diversity within our local queer community. Under the Blade umbrella, we are the only queer publication that is allowed in the White House briefing room. Most recently, the Los Angeles Blade was awarded the Hero Impact Award by the Stonewall Young Democrats and the Excellence in LGBTQ Reporting Newsroom Award by the Los Angeles NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.

WE NEED YOUR HELP now more than ever. Queer media has been hit hard this year. Along with the anti-LGBTQ sentiment coming from our current administration, the industry is victim to sponsorship and advertising cutbacks.

We need to hit this mid-term election head-on. We need your support to grow our reporting team to ensure we have the resources to do our research, have a presence in the field, and share the news as it happens. We also need to grow our digital space. The way our community consumes the news is changing, and we need to ensure our news is out there, on all platforms. Our next quarter plan is to debut the first-ever Los Angeles Blade podcast so that our news is not only at a local level, but a national one.

We are embarking on $20K in 20 days. We are looking to the community to contribute to fair, balanced, and necessary news, as it happens in the White House. With your help, we will not be silenced.

Your donation is tax-deductible and directly supports the Blade Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.