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The Future of AfterEllen

Over the last four years, It has been an honor and privilege to be a co-owner and now the sole owner of AfterEllen.com. Continually bringing new content – news, book, music and movie reviews, tv recaps and commentary to the site has been a joy and a pleasure, thanks to the writers and editor Jocelyn Macdonald. AfterEllen stands alone as the only mainstream media site that exists with content written exclusively for same sex attracted women. 

Last year the AE team was able to restore almost 60,000 articles from when the site crashed in November 2020. You can find them in the archive tab on the site. The organic site traffic is going ever higher. Last month the site had double the sessions compared to March of 2021. Lesbians and bi women are interested in our content. I think we are well on the way to a resurgence of our women’s community, and we would like to be a part of that.

Sadly, the cost of paying the bills and providing new content by far outstrips the little income from the ads on the site, and not enough people have subscribed to the site for it to break even. As of June 30, I will suspend providing new, paid content until I can find a way to pay for the site, the content, and the business. I am also suspending the Google ads for the time being, in the hope that readers might be more willing to pay for ad-free content. Unfortunately, this arrangement puts the AfterEllen writers out of work, at least for the time being.

I have so many plans for AfterEllen. I want to collaborate with a lesbian-only dating app, co-sponsoring women’s events, hire a detransitioned lesbian to write for AE regularly, and get the AfterEllen YouTube busy again. Most, if not all of this will go on hold for now, as I work to cut costs. I will diligently work to maintain the site in the coming months, and ensure that it will be around in the future, as an archive of over twenty years of women’s culture.

In case anyone wants to inquire, AfterEllen.com is not for sale. The AfterEllen mailing list is also the property of Lesbian Nation LLC – I will never sell, rent or give away the AfterEllen email address list.

I am hopeful that I will find new ways to put content up on the site, and make sure the writers will get compensated, either by LNLCC or directly by the readers, for their awesome work.  If you readers value AfterEllen content, please consider a monthly, periodic, or one-time subscription.

Thank you,

Gaye Chapman

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