Out on the Town Magazine

Out on the Town Magazine was an American LGBT-interest magazine, available in over 80 businesses in 20 cities across seven states in the Deep and Mid-South. The magazine had an editorial focus on news, arts and entertainment of interest to LGBTs. The magazine was established in Pensacola, Florida in September 2010, and was the first glossy LGBT magazine to serve the Florida Panhandle, Alabama and Mississippi. Out on the Town also serves Arkansas, Louisiana, middle Tennessee and southwest Missouri. The magazine lasted 20 issues and published its final issue in June 2012.

History
Mike Halterman started Out on the Town in Pensacola in September 2010 with 12 distribution points in September 2010, with a circulation of 2,400. As of February 2012, over 80 businesses in 20 cities across the Southern United States provided distribution points for the magazine, growing its circulation to 9,500.

In August 2011, the magazine's office relocated to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where it remained through its final publication date in June 2012.

Content
In addition to arts and entertainment content, Out on the Town includes articles on discrimination faced by LGBT people in the Deep and Mid-South. That includes interviews with and coverage of local advocacy groups such as Equality Florida, Equality Alabama, the ACLU of Mississippi, Unity Mississippi and the Center for Artistic Revolution.

The publication also include a "yellow pages" style listing of LGBT bars and clubs in many of the magazine's 20 cities served.

Notable writers, present and past

 * Mike Halterman
 * Tori Mattison
 * Sapphire Nicole Rachels

Recognition
In 2012, the magazine's founding publisher, Mike Halterman, was selected one of The Advocate magazine's 2012 "40 Under 40" in large part for his work on Out on the Town.