Exit (magazine) – Wikipedia

EXIT
Description	Gay city magazine (NRW)
Verlag	Exit Medien GmbH
First edition	October 2002
Manifestation	monthly
Distributed edition	11,802 copies
(IVW Q3/2012)
Weblink	www.exit-magazin.de

Exit (Self -writing EXIT ) was a monthly gay magazine for North Rhine-Westphalia. It was released from 2002 to 2014.

The booklet was first published in October 2002 and was released by Essen Verlag Exit Medien GmbH, formerly Essen. After taking over the business by a Berlin publisher in July 2012 EXIT with the rik Together, new rooms in the Cologne Friesenviertel. In April 2014 the exit merged with the Rik and no longer appears as an independent magazine.

EXIT In addition to classic city magazine content, an important function in networking gay-lesbian self-help groups in North Rhine-Westphalia had an important function. The magazine, publicist, supported the demand for legal and social equality of gay men and lesbian women.

The distribution focus was in the Ruhr area and Düsseldorf. But the magazine was also available on the Lower Rhine, in the Bergisches Land and Westphalia.

The EXIT was available free of charge in North Rhine-Westphalia for the reader by advertising financing for the reader and appeared with a print edition of 12,000 copies. ^[first]

The name EXIT was chosen based on the English expression for “exit”, which alluded to “get out” of itself (coming-out as a gay or as a lesbian) as well as the English phrase “Get Out of the Closet”. With the partially used subtitle “The Gay Ausleg-Magazin for NRW”, the content of the content should be underlined to offer readers a comprehensive scene guide and diary.

The magazine had nothing to do with euthanasia associations of the same name or neo-Nazi dropouts.

The sole managing director and editor -in -chief was Marc Kersten until the end of 2008, who was already the gay city magazine from 1991 to 1995 Pink Power published in Berlin. After a short intermezzo as editor -in -chief of the nationwide gay newspaper First , he switched to the Ruhr area magazine in 1997 Pink zone . After its renaming (1998) in Queer And Marc Kersten worked there as a department head for politics and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as chieflayouter. From 2000 to 2002 he was an editor for application software at the computer magazine c’t. Marc Kersten was the editor of the MultiSexual Cologne scene newspaper Flash until August 2013, which was then discontinued.

Dietrich Dettmann was responsible for the local reporting of Exit until the end of 2009, which was also in the NRW editorial team of the Queer had been active and has started with the new magazine “Fresh – the Queermag for NRW” since 2010 and took over the Cologne/Bonn/Aachen region from Flash at the end of 2013.
In addition to Marc Kersten, the editor -in -chief of exit were also Dietrich Dettmann, Lars Lienen and Markus Girg.

Since it was founded until the end of 2012 EXIT Associated member of the GayCityCom , the then network of gay metropolese magazines in Germany. This cooperation was dissolved at the end of June 2007. In July 2007, a new network of gay city magazines with the name took her place Publigayte that also the magazines gave (Frankfurt and Rhein-Main/Neckar), Hinner (Hamburg), Leo (Munich), rik (Cologne) and Victory column (Berlin) belonged.

1. ↑ IVW advertising media data , 3rd quarter 2012