Publishers’ Note

New Year. New Life. New Q.

by Russ White , Garrett Pattiani
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Hello and welcome to QLife!

Happy New Year! We are so proud to be starting off 2017 with our new brand, new name, new website, and representing three iconic American cities! We are so excited to have QLife Magazine serving the LGBTQ community with content from Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York.

For those of you that we have never had the pleasure of meeting, we want to introduce ourselves. In Las Vegas, we have co-founders Garrett Pattiani and Russ White. In Los Angeles, we have Trevor Hansen, and in New York, we have Michael Barbieri. 

QLife is the evolution of 39 years of LGBTQ publishing in Las Vegas that has been re-invented to a modern day system, reaching readers all over the world. This month we make our debut as QLife Magazine in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York. Decide how you want to hear from us by visiting us in one of the following ways: You can read us online in web edition, Social Media editions, subscribe to our email editions, view our online flipbook, download a PDF, or order a printed copy. Each edition will vary slightly to represent content that serves the local communities.

We believe that no matter where you call home, we all have something in common and our goal is to connect our communities through a brand and voices that you can trust. Our magazine has contributors of all kinds, allowing all voices to be represented. We love diversity and think that all of the colors of our rainbow deserve to be celebrated.

What better way to announce our debut than with the fabulous Cher as she makes her return to Las Vegas in February for CLASSIC CHER. We attended the opening of the new Park Theater with Stevie Nicks in December, and we can’t wait to go back and see Cher. You can’t think of Cher and Vegas without thinking of Steven Wayne, one of the city's most famous Cher impersonators. We caught a few moments of his time offstage from Frank Marino’s Diva’s Las Vegas for an interview.

Longtime QVegas contributor Michael Barbieri brings us tastes of Vegas and New York with his features on Morimoto, Red Rooster Harlem & Ginny's Supper Club, and some of his favorite experiences living in The Big Apple. Norma Llyaman endears herself to the Las Vegas community in so many ways, so we’re giving “the bearded lady of Las Vegas” her own space to rant (or sometimes rave) on Norma’s Page

Garrett Pattiani

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