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After 30 Years, Lavender Magazine Ends Its Run Covering Minnesota's LGBTQ+ Community
The magazine's 20th anniversary coincided with the Supreme Court's landmark decision on same-sex marriage, its founder said.
June 26, 2026
Lavender Magazine, which published stories about Minnesota's LGBTQ+ community, is ending its 30-year run.
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The biweekly magazine published its first issue on June 9, 1995, during a time when "there were virtually no gay rights in the United States and in Minnesota," the magazine's founder Stephen Rocheford, wrote.
"However, with the passage of time and in short order, history marched on and Lavender beat the drum for equality in Minnesota," he said.
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