eurOut.org, founded in September 2008, is a European website dedicated to bringing their readers the latest news about lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

 and bisexual women in entertainment and politics in the English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 language. The website was founded by Sandra Showtime who also functioned as its editor-in-chief

Editor in chief

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 until February 2010, when she accepted a job as COO

Chief operating officer

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 for OneMoreLesbian.com (OML). eurOut.org is currently run by Saskia Joreen until a new CEO is appointed.

eurOut.org

eurOut.org started as a forum

Internet forum

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 post at the American

United States

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 website AfterEllen.com

AfterEllen.com

AfterEllen.com, founded in April 2002, is a website that focuses on the portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in the media. AfterElton.com, its brother site for gay and bisexual men, was launched in January 2005. The websites were founded by Sarah Warn, who initially served as the editor in...

 in August 2008, in which Sandra Showtime expressed her desire to create a website

Website

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 dedicated solely to European lesbian and bisexual news and entertainment. Until the website went up in September of the same year, this forum thread was where eurOut.org contributors posted

Mail

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 their articles.

The name ‘eurOut’ comes from the combined words ‘Europe’ and ‘Out

Coming out

Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....

’. Their tagline

Tagline

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, ‘informed.entertained.enlightened’ was recently changed to ‘european.lesbian.news’.

In the time since its creation, EurOut.org has found a steady reader base, reaching several thousand readers every day while continuing to expand their reader base and editorial

Editing

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 team. EurOut.Org is currently the most frequently visited website for European lesbian news and sponsors major events like the Gay Games Cologne 2010.

Content

eurOut.org distinguishes itself from other blogs aimed at lesbian and bisexual women by focussing solely on European content and high quality articles

Article (publishing)

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. The website discusses entertainment news from television

Television

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, film

Film

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, books, music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, out lesbian and bisexual celebrities and web series

Web series

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. It also reports on queer

Queer

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 events and any relevant change of the political landscape in Europe.

Recaps

Summary

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 of television shows with lesbian and bisexual content are a large part of the entertainment section as well as portraits about known and relatively unknown out lesbian or bisexual women. Weekly column

Column

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s like ‘We Are Everywhere’ and ‘The Lesbian News Stack’ provide updates on entertainment and political news, respectively. Other regular columns include ‘LesBian Life’ for human interest stories, ‘GameOut’ for lesbian and bisexual content in video games and ‘Lists Are Hot’ and ‘Studying LesBians’ for an overview on various topics related to lesbian and bisexual life.

Writers

With contributing writers, eurOut.org has a writing staff of 15-20 people. Regular contributors, writers and editors are listed below.

• Sandra Showtime (Founder)
• Saskia Joreen (Editor-in-Chief)
• Anna McFaith (Public Relations Officer)
• Natazzz (Entertainment Editor)
• Maxime68 (Political Editor)
• Chantal
• Ley
• Joan
• Gwen