According to a press release sent out today by PlanetOut, Inc., it looks as though the company continues to face a doubtful future that might include getting the boot from NASDAQ: PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT), a leading media and entertainment company exclusively focused on the gay and lesbian mark...

 SF BUSINESS TIMES -- Jan 9 -- Gay and lesbian media company PlanetOut Inc will merge with Here Networks and Regent Entertainment Media, two related businesses that have bought parts of PlanetOut in the past few years. Here Media and Regent will pay $4.7m in cash into the new company as part of the...

A new kingpin of gay content has just come out to Wall Street: Here Media, which rules queer pay-TV, film, magazines, books, and websites. But has anyone stopped to ask if we need it? The media itself is gayer than ever: From the pink mafia at the New York Times to the ambisexual likes of Neal Boult...

One of our favorite pastimes here at Queerty is chronicling the The New York Times' slow transformation into a college literary magazine by way of self-mythologizing "culture" pieces about the writing staff's various crippling addictions. Previously, we told you about Susan Cheav...

Gay folk continue to capture the collective marketing eye. And so they should! A survey of 2,259 adults found that 68% of self-described gays are more likely to buy from a company they find gay-friendly. And there are definitely companies - and methods - coming out on top: Bravo, Apple, Showtime, HB...

Bill Gates's money hasn't been enough to staunch the bleeding at PlanetOut. The San Francisco-based gay-media company is finalizing a deal to sell its magazine and book publishing business to the Here Network, a gay and lesbian video-on-demand service. The company publishes leading gay-interest mags...

Re. the "sale" of Out and The Advocate: PlanetOut.com sold the mags, along with some other properties, to Regent Releasing for $6 million cash, payable in $1 million increments over the next year. But according to Regent and PlanetOut: "The funds shall be treated as prepaid advertising, to be applie...

Out editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin. That face alone is worth $6 million!Photo: Getty Images PlanetOut Inc. has agreed to sell its magazine titles, Out and The Advocate, to Here Networks, the company that runs gay television channel here! TV. The twin titles, the largest and arguably most-respected ga...

Citizen Culture publisher Jonathan Feit drops 768-words telling us what we already know: the media hopes to pocket the pink dollar. As historically gay media companies like PlanetOut attempt to keep up with the ever-changing queer culture, Time Warner Cable, Viacom and other giants have launched a w...

SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES -- Apr 3 -- PlanetOut, a media company running web sites and magazines aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender customers, has put Expedia in charge of travel booking on its web sites. In the past, a good chunk of PlanetOut's revenue came from travel bookings, alt...