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Smith Associate Editor Rachel Beebe Assistant Editor Rachel Shatto Book Review Editor Rachel Pepper Music Review Editor Margaret Coble Contributing Editors Julia Bloch, Victoria A. Brownworth, Gina Daggett, Sheryl Kay, Gretchen Lee, Stephanie Schroeder Copy Editor Katherine Wright Editorial Assistants Lisa Gunther, Sarah C. Jiménez, Stephanie Vernier PUBLISHING Director of Operations Flo Enriquez Senior Advertising Executive Diana L. Berry Advertising Sales Rivendell Media Advertising Intern Hans Djunaidy Marketing Assistant Rose Tachis ART/PRODUCTION Art Director Stefanie Liang Hello, Mrs. Keaton! Photo Editor Hayley McMillen Production Manager Ondine Kilker Production Artist Kelly Nuti In the ’80s when everyone else was crushed out on Michael J. Fox, the cute Web Producer Nikki Woelk boy wonder of Family Ties, lesbians were agog for Elyse Keaton, the original Photo Assistant Brittany Jeffers TV MILF (OK, Mrs. Brady might have had dibs on that title, too). Like a CONTRIBUTING WRITERS legion of queer women before me, I hoped, but never could have imagined Jamie Anderson, Kathy Belge, Stacy Bias, Kelsy Chauvin, Bree Clarke, Jennifer Corday, Lyndsey D’Arcangelo, Beren deMotier, that Meredith Baxter was actually gay. Or would be gay, eventually. Ainsley Drew, Michele Fisher, Lauren Marie Fleming, Katrina By now, most of you may have heard that Meredith Baxter is a lesbian. Fox, Serena Freewomyn Tania Hammidi, Kathi Isserman, Gillian Kendall, Kate Lacey, Sheela Lambert, Charlene Lichtenstein, Karen She has been living privately out for several years, but after spending a week Loftus, Sassafras Lowrey, Ariel Messman-Rucker, Candace Moore, alongside hundreds of lesbians on Sweet’s inaugural cruise, she decided to Alison Peters, Catherine Plato, Aimsel L. Ponti, Heather Robinson, Laurie K. Schenden, Lori Selke, Dave Steinfeld, Edie Stull, Robin come out to the public, too. Miner-Swartz, Yana Tallon-Hicks, Kyra Thomson, Jocelyn Voo, By the time the cruise ship had returned to the port in New Orleans, our Melany Walters-Beck, Jamie Wetherbe offices were already atwitter with calls, texts and emails letting us know the CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS & PHOTOGRAPHERS great TV legend had been on the cruise.
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