To our Friends OUT and About.

To all of our friends outside of the Connecticut area in the U.S., and around the world who read the QWB blog a little explaining is in order about what is going on here and what has gotten QWB steaming. The Metroline is a GL magazine that is the oldest GL magazine in New England. Over the years folks in the GLBT community have had trouble with them over one thing or another. One time it was over the abundance of half naked young men on the cover and the bar rag quality of their reporting, and another time over their disrespect for the trans community. Once again around and around we go and we find that the Metroline is now once again displaying half naked young men on the cover and disrespecting the Trans community. The former editor explained to me that the advertisers (mostly bars) who pay the bills wanted to see only half naked young men, no women and no politics.  Another very political person who is much respected within all circles of the movement told me that the Metroline informed them that the group could no longer have any free space to publish updates on their important work since the Metroline was going back to being a skin variety magazine. Recently the Metroline’s editor, Mr. Joe DaBrow in a letter from the editor had this to say.

“Stonewall was not simply an activist protest where they went home afterward and partied. They were beaten and dragged away to jail by the police. It was a time when fag bashing was an accepted method of controlling homos and keeping them out of the neighborhood. There were no drag queens there at all. It was gay human beings simply standing up for being who they were.”

 People around here sprung into action against this revisionist history of our movement. We waited for a response from the Metroline and finally got it in the late June issue. You can get to this issue simply by googling in Metroline. When you do take a look at the Letter from the Editor, his article “That Fateful Night”, “Language Can Be Such A Drag” by some other whip shit, and the Letter from the Publisher Mr. I have been there and I know it all, John Crowley. Worth reading also are the Letters to the Editor. Do it soon, as the Metroline does not seem to archive on their site and once a issue is over it is gone.  For other QWB listings about the Metroline see here and here.  The funny thing is that most of the political and thinking people have long ago given up on the rag called The Metroline.