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$24,155 of $40,000 needed raised. $15,845 to go!

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Summary

  • QSaltLake was launched in 2004 during the anti-gay marriage Amendment 3 campaign with the publisher's savings and a $55,000 home equity loan against his house
  • In August of last year, we plead to the community that decreasing ad revenues put us in a financial crisis.
  • Through frugal living, many overhead cost reductions and increased focus on generating revenue, we have made it these 12 hard months.
  • We found out this week the home equity loan is due and payable September 1. Our balance is at $40,000.

We need your help to stay alive and continue our work as the voice for Utah's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and ally community.

Where we are now

We recently went through a complete re-think. We realized our shortcomings, recognized our strengths and threw everything on the table for change. What we are now is nowhere near what we were when we started:

  • We now print between 10,000 and 15,000 copies per issue
  • We have an incredible online presence at http://gaysaltlake.com
  • Our business directory is now available online at http://biz.gaysaltlake.com
  • We are appealing to a younger demographic while maintaining what our more mature demographic looks for in each issue
  • We have a mobile app that allows you to read news of the day, find local gay-friandly businesses and find out what's happening in Salt Lake's vibrant nightlife scene

Why it's important

We are making great strides as a community. We are proud to be a part of that progress. We have a long way to go:

  • Many of our readers can be fired from their jobs or kicked out of their homes for being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender
  • Amendment 3 is still on the books and thwarts our efforts to provide for our families
  • Our youth are at great risk for suicide, being bullied, or being left on the streets by their families
QSaltLake is a bridge-builder. Nearly a quarter of our readers are allies - moms, dads, friends and other family of the LGBT community. By reading QSaltLake, they know our issues, know how to respond at the water cooler to anti-gay remarks. Our members not yet out of the closet and our youth look to us to provide them community and support in a safe and non-threatening environment.
 
We support Utah's LGBT community through information and education. We provide vital health inormation and resources to cope in a conservative state.

What we can offer in thanks

We would love to mail you our issues directly to your home, offer a Q sticker for your car and other perks - even up to a private dinner with our publisher, editor and arts editor at our publisher's home.

We will succeed

We have to. This campaign is for 20 percent of our loan. We'd love it if it covered the whole amount. We are passionate about providing a service to our community. We know many of you are passionate for our community as well. We hope you will consider throwing what you can at helping us retire this debt and thrive for our community.

Testimonials

Woodsprite23

QSaltLake and Michael Aaron only mean good things to me. I want this publication to thrive in a community that needs awareness and to support a man who speaks volumes just by the person he is.

JFunk54

We have got to keep QSaltLake. It is one of the best things we have going in this valley.

jo.vanderhooft

QSaltLake is hands down the best local LGBT news publication in the country, and is as vital to Utah today as it was in 2004—perhaps even more so as Utahn’s LGBT community continues to make gains across the state. Please do what you can to support it.

Please help us continue our work for Utah's LGBT & ally community

How you can help

There are several ways to help. You may:

  • Mail a check to: QSaltLake, 1055 E 2100 S Ste 206, SLC UT 84106 (Memo: SaveQ)
  • Call 801-649-6663 ext. 2 to donate by Visa, MasterCard of American Express
  • Send a donation through Paypal to save@qsaltlake.com
  • Donate through our Indiegogo page
  • Claim one of the perks below:

Student/Ltd

Utah only


  • Our undying gratitude

  • We will mail each issue to you for a year
$25
Donate

Friend

Utah only


  • Our undying gratitude

  • A Q car sticker

  • We will mail each issue to you for a year
$40
Donate

Friend

U.S. Only


  • Our undying gratitude

  • A Q car sticker

  • We will mail each issue to you for a year
$50
Donate

Family

U.S. Only


  • Our undying gratitude

  • A Q car sticker

  • We will mail each issue to you for a year

  • A thank you card signed by the staff and contributors of QSaltLake

  • A MILK dvd

  • 2 tickets to our 2013 Fabby Awards ceremony
$100
Donate


Godsend


  • Our undying gratitude

  • A Q sticker for your car

  • We will mail each issue to you for a year

  • A thank you card signed by the staff and contributors of QSaltLake

  • A MILK dvd

  • 2 tickets to our 2013 Fabby Awards ceremony

  • A listing in every issue we publish as a Q Angel

$1000
Donate

Godsend


  • Our undying gratitude

  • A Q sticker for your car

  • We will mail each issue to you for a year

  • A thank you card signed by the staff and contributors of QSaltLake

  • A MILK dvd

  • 2 tickets to our 2013 Fabby Awards ceremony

  • A listing in every issue we publish as a Q Godsend

  • A private dinner with the publisher, editor and arts editor at the publisher's home

$5000
Donate

Incredible


  • What does one give the most incredible person on Earth to say thank you? Undying love, a sticker the size of Mars, perhaps you should name it. A huge thank you would have to be the beginning.

$10000
Donate

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