The Bay Area Reporter is reporting that The Advocate will scale back to a monthly edition, after many (many) years of being biweekly. The comments from the new editor are very interesting, including saying that he doesn't think they'll be featuring straight entertainers anymore and that they will have more news inside:

"I don't think there is a need for a biweekly magazine anymore with the Web," Barrett said. Barrett added that the magazine will be thicker, with a heavier paper stock. "We will have more room for bigger stories and we're going to get better writers," he added. "You will see more news in the magazine."

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Among other changes Barrett has in store is a move away from covers featuring entertainers; for example, he said that he doesn't think the magazine needs to feature a cover shot of straight man who is playing a gay role. And of course, the question of what it's like to kiss a man," Barrett said, referencing a frequent question posed to straight actors in such interviews. "I don't think our readers want to read those stories anymore," he said, adding that those features were needed in the 1990s, when it was validating to many LGBTs.

Interesting! Maybe there's still hope left for the magazine! For years now, it's slid down the tubes with less and less interesting material. Still, when me and freelance journies chat, we recognize that it's perhaps the only national go-to if you want to get your voice heard by the big guns in the LGBT world. The only catch of course is lately they've only been publishing pretty crappy stuff. Maybe that will change?

(Via Joe. My. God.)