Lambda Literary Competitors

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Beacon Press is an independent, nonprofit book publisher founded in 1854. The mission of Beacon Press is to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person; to promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; to encourage the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process in society; to further the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; to foster respect for the interdependent web of all existence; and to bear witness to the importance of literature and the arts in democratic life. Founded in 1854, Beacon has published many groundbreaking classics, including James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, Jean Baker Miller’s Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology. In 1971, Beacon published the Senator Gravel edition of The Pentagon Papers in five volumes, prompting a call from then-president Richard Nixon and ultimately resulting in a Supreme Court case. Beacon is also the publisher of Cornel West’s acclaimed Race Matters, Michael Patrick MacDonald’s All Souls, and eleven titles by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver. In May 2009, Beacon Press announced a new partnership with the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. for a new publishing program, the King Legacy.

The Advocate is a U.S.-based LGBT-interest magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription or packaged with OUT magazine on newsstands nationwide. The brand has an editorial focus on news, politics, opinion, and arts & entertainment of interest to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered (LGBT) people. The magazine, established in 1967, is the oldest LGBT publication in the United States and the only surviving one of its kind that was founded before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City that is generally credited as the beginning of the LGBT rights movement. It's now the world's leading source of LGBT news and entertainment with it's highly-visited website, Advocate.com.