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For more than 50 years, the Seattle Gay News has broken stories and advocated for Seattle's LGBTQ+ community.

Today, they're hoping their community and allies will step up to help the paper survive.

Venice Buhain takes us inside.

VO: In 1974, the Seattle Gay News was founded amidst the gay rights movement of the 1970s.

It's been a lifeline through the 1980s, 1990s through today.

>> There wasn't a whole lot of publications that were covering the HIV crisis.

It was a bit of a taboo thing.

I forget which specific paper in here, but we do have one that literally says, like, 'gay cancer.'

Like before the term has even been created yet, it's already being covered.

VO: Renee Raketty has been the publisher of the Seattle Gay News since 2024, but remembers when it was the only LGBTQ+ resource for many people.

>> You know, like it was how you found out about events.

It's how you found your partner.

It's how you found openly LGBTQ welcoming businesses.

VO: It's evolved with the times, with a website and social media, but still honors its roots.

RAKETTY: Just as vital today as it was back then.

This is a time in our history where our community is facing -- especially trans people are facing -- the possibility of extinction from this administration.

VO: But print costs have been rising and advertising has been slowing.

Major companies have cut back on spending on causes that support diversity, and smaller neighborhood businesses like bars and restaurants face their own financial struggles.

RAKETTY: We've invested in our community, during the last five decades.

And hopefully the community will remember that and invest in us now.

VO: The paper recently launched a fundraising campaign on Patreon.

RAKETTY: If it wasn't for us, those stories would never been told and those bills would never have been passed.

Our community would not be where it's at today.

>> Next time, we'll share more about a popular LGBTQ drag variety show.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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