Think about it. When a gay teen bleaches his hair, the rest of his peers pay attention. Four or five months down the road, all the other kids are doing exactly what he first started. GAY & LESBIAN YOUTH SET THE TRENDS.

Maybe you didn't realize this, but GAY & LESBIAN YOUTH ARE NOT A SMALL GROUP. Estimates suggest 2.7 million Americans between the ages of 14 and 27 define themselves as "something other than straight." (source: U.S. Census, Osmosis MediaLab, YGA Survey)

YGA Magazine is the first magazine for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Straight-Friendly young people. Our first issue, YGA Magazine #1, sold out in 8 major U.S. cities and received rave reviews from youth, teachers, counselors, advertisers, members of the media, and religious groups.

Now is the chance to capture the BRAND-NEW and significant Gay Teen Market. Our advertisers know that there's power in the readers of YGA Magazine. YGA readers have been ignored by mainstream media for a long time. A nod from an advertiser to this demographic is stronger than a mainstream placement; it sends a powerful message to our audience and results in a strength of brand loyalty you've probably never experienced before.

Please download our media kit and let us know if you have any questions we can answer. YGA Magazine is distributed in all 50 states and across Canada in specialty newsstands and the Borders and Hastings book chains. Our brand is well-loved and respected from various projects involving the Gay Youth Market (including documentary films, resource website, lectures, exhibits) since 2001. With the momentum of the better-than-expected sales of our first issue, YGA is poised to grow quickly, and our subscriber base is growing by the day. YGA's distributor aims to make YGA the alternative to more mainstream (i.e., "heterosexual") glossy teen/young adult publications like YM or Seventeen.

Get in at the beginning and grab hold of the trend-setters.

Scott Marquardt
Associate Publisher
YGA Media Incorporated
(902) 453-6083
[email protected]

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