Special Media SDL is a German

LGBT LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The gro ...

Magazine and Online Media for the

(Lesbian Gay Bi- and Trans*sexual) target audience. Special Media SDL's most well-known publication is the

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

City Magazine, the

Siegessäule The Victory Column ( , from '' Sieg'' 'victory' + '' Säule'' 'column') is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugura ...

, which has been in existence since 1984 and has the biggest print run for a city magazine in Berlin and the whole of Germany. It is published once a month and on average approx. 52 000 copies are distributed free from about 700 places in Berlin. The publisher also produces the L-MAG, a magazine for

lesbian A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...

s, which was founded in 2003 and is available at book stores and newsagents throughout

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

, as well as in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

and

Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembour ...

. The magazine is also available on subscription and as an

E-paper Electronic paper or intelligent paper, is a display device that reflects ambient light, mimicking the appearance of ordinary ink on paper – unlike conventional flat-panel displays which need additional energy to emit their own light. This may ...

publication. Special Media SDL was established as a journalistic special interest publishing house in May 2012, by journalists

Gudrun Fertig Gudrun ( ; ) or Kriemhild ( ; ) is the wife of Sigurd/Siegfried and a major figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature. She is believed to have her origins in Ildico, last wife of Attila the Hun, and two queens of the Merovingian dynas ...

and

Manuela Kay Manuela Kay (born 2 April 1964) is a German journalist, author and publisher. Life and career Kay worked from the first day of its founding (March 1987) until February 1991 as the editor and presenter of the first Berlin private Radio Station, ' ...

. They took over the new media wing of the Jackwerth Publishing Company, when the (now deceased) titular head, Reiner Jackwerth, took a professional backseat. Both Fertig and Kay were employed for a long time as editors in chief in Jackwerth Publishing and are, inter alia, both company directors of Special Media SDL. The Head Office is in

Berlin-Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990, it has ...

References

{{reflist Mass media companies of Germany LGBTQ organisations based in Germany German companies established in 2012