Type of site Online magazine Owner GayCities Alexa rank 8961 (January 2015) | Available in English Website www.queerty.com Commercial Yes | |
Queerty is an online magazine and newspaper covering gay-oriented lifestyle and news, founded in 2005 by David Hauslaib. As of June 2015, the site had more than five million monthly unique visitors.
History
Queerty was founded by David Hauslaib in 2005. The site briefly shut down operations in 2011 before being sold to GayCities, which currently owns and operates it.
Newsweek called Queerty "a leading site for gay issues" in 2010.
The site bestows the Queerty Awards or "Queerties", in which their readers vote for the "best of LGBTQ Media and Culture". A record 300,000 votes were gathered in 2017.
References
Queerty Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA