Queerty is dead (maybe). Can gay blogs stay afloat?

On April 18th Queerty, a popular web blog covering primarily gay-oriented lifestyle and news, announced its demise. For over five years the popular site that boasted that it was "free of an agenda, except that gay one" was frequently referenced by mainstream media outlets like ABC News, the Los Angeles Times and gay newspapers such as EDGE. Newsweek even called it "a leading site for gay issues." And when it ceased to publish, the future of queer blogging came into focus.

But wait: not so fast. On April 25th, Queerty announced that the site is "coming back." "You heard right, after a few weeks of downtime, Queerty will soon return as the one place you need to turn each day," read a blog post on the site. The owners of Queerty, 353Media, who were blamed by creator David Hauslaib for shuttering the site after "technical difficulties," aren’t talking about the hiccup in coverage - yet. But has this controversial website actually resolved its difficulties? Or is the hand-wringing over the ability of gay blogs to prosper just beginning?

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