She should be remembered and known as such,” he said.ĭeLarverie’s legacy can also be seen through the work of one of the evening’s honorees, Janet Mock.
“When we look at the LGBT community today so much of it can be traced back to gender policing and Storme was a pioneer in taking that up. In pushing the movement forward, SCF has invested more than $17 million in over 600 organizations to strengthen the LGBT community. Her contributions have not been lost on SCF’s executive director, Jarrett Lucas. For that action, she is commonly referred to as the Rosa Parks of the LGBT rights movement.
She is one of the first documented people to fight the police in 1969 at the historic Stonewall Inn riots. On Saturday May 24, the 93-year-old, lesbian activist who helped lay the foundation for the modern-day LGBT rights movement died. Nevertheless, DeLarverie’s impact on the LGBT rights movement was certainly present. Storme DeLarverie’s name was not familiar to many of the celebrity guests in attendance at the 2014 Vision Awards presented by the Stonewall Community Foundation (SCF) last week at the Museum of the City of New York. Kyra Kyles, formerly a senior editor of JET magazine and digital managing editor of, has been designated as digital editorial director for JET online.Ģ014 Vision Awards reflects on LGBT rights movement I hope they continue to be phenomenal digitally and I will be subscribing,” she said. We read in JET what we don’t in more popular media. Taylor, former Essence Magazine editor-in-chief and current founder and CEO of the National CARES Mentoring Movement, is ready to embrace the change. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. I am sure JET will adapt too.”īy submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Harlem World Magazine, 2521 1/2 west 42nd street, Los Angeles, CA, 90008. So you just gotta stay on top of your game. “As a DJ I had to adapt once technology took over our industry. To stay afloat JET aims to capitalize on the digital frontier where it is predicted that online and mobile ad revenue will increase by 22.4% to $3.9 billion in 2014 according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.īeverly Bond, DJ and founder of BLACK GIRLS ROCK!, understands JET’s switch since technology has also impacted her career. The drop is not isolated, as overall total advertising revenue at consumer magazines has also suffered decreases. “With technology what it is I am not surprised by their decision to stop printing.”Īccording to Publishers Information Bureau (PIB) data, JET’s total print advertising revenue decreased 24 percent to $10.3 million last year from $13.6 million in 2010. “I grew up looking at JET every week in my house and had JET beauties on my wall growing up,” actor Michael Ealy recalled. It will be a bittersweet moment for readers of, JET magazine when the iconic publication transitions into an all-digital platform, and a subscription app, on its scheduled launch date of June 30.įor the past 63 years JET has been heralded for its content from chronicling the dawn of the civil rights movement to celebrating black beauty with its popular ‘Beauty of the Week’ feature.
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