Current Affairs 02 Mar 2007 06:03 pm
Venus Magazine, Part 2
So, it appears there is a bit of new juice coming out of the Venus Magazine story that I blogged about last month. I noticed this because the search terms “Venus Magazine” jumped up in my stats when I looked today, and that blog entry became the second most popular. Also, I was interviewed yesterday by someone who writes for Curve magazine. She’s writing a story about the change in Venus Magazine.
Some new coverage in the internet world has come out since I wrote about this. Ex-gay watch, a blog I’d not known about before, had a story, with some more information in it that is pretty interesting (like an organization getting 200 unsolicited copies of the magazine.) LifeSite News, a Canadian pro-life, pro-Christian news site, has a very positive story about the change in the magazine. Southern Voice, a gay website from Atlanta, has a story which fills in some of the history of Venus Magazine that I hadn’t known (the mag was named after a lesbian who was murdered.)
There are quite a number of blog posts about it - it seems mostly in the category of “see what God can do!” There seems to be a lot of chatter in the conservative Christian blogosphere about this. (By the way, there is another Venus magazine - a women’s indie music/culture magazine - so don’t get too confused)
I don’t know what the fallout of this will be, eventually. Ex-gay watch has a question about “whether Cothran has received new funding as a result of her new-found ex-gay identity…” That’s something to ponder.
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