''Switch'' was a Romanian

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magazine. Switch was the first commercial glossy magazine for the LGBT community in Romania. The first issue of ''Switch'' was released on July 1, 2005, and dealt extensively with the organisation of Romania's first gay pride parade, as part of Bucharest's annual

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. A second issue was released in September and the 3 in January 2006 by Andrei Pop (without

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) The Switch Magazine was an LGBT magazine published by SC.ContraAD.SRL (with Michael Labelle as publisher/director. Switch is the successor of Angelicuss Magazine (the first LGBT newsletter from Romania). Switch had 40 color pages and was distributed with pay by the national distribution network. After the first two numbers edited in

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by the team led by Lucian Dunareanu (chief editor), executive head manager of Be An Angel Romania (the majority of the team members being working journalists with specialized studies), Michael Labelle moved to Bucharest following Andrei Pop's proposal to make the Switch Magazine together without the help of

. Though the first Bucharest based issue was well received, there was never enough community support or advertising revenue to make it a viable enterprise, and thus the first of the

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-based edition of Switch was also the last.

External links

Revista Switch
(former site, currently offline)
Article about LGBT media in Romania, including a section on ''Switch''
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