AfterEllen

AfterEllen
Screenshot
Screenshot of AfterEllen main page.
Type of site
Website, blog, news (entertainment, community, society), podcast
Available inEnglish
OwnerLesbian Nation, LLC
Created bySarah Warn
EditorJocelyn Macdonald, Editor in Chief[1]
URLafterellen.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedApril 15, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-04-15)
Current statusOnline

AfterEllen is an American culture website founded in 2002,[2] with a focus on entertainment, interviews, reviews, and news of interest to the lesbian and bisexual women's community.[3] The site covers pop culture and lifestyle issues from a feminist perspective; and the political climate as it pertains to the community.[4] AfterEllen is not affiliated with entertainer Ellen DeGeneres, although its name refers to her coming out, specifically when her character came out in "The Puppy Episode" (1997) on her eponymous sitcom.[5]

AfterEllen originally reported on subjects of popular culture, such as celebrities, fashion, film, television, music, and books; publishing articles, regular columns, opinion pieces, interviews, reviews, recaps of television shows with lesbian and bisexual characters or subtextual content, and popularity contests. Weekly vlogs were a key feature, the more popular of which included "Brunch With Bridget", "Lesbian Love", and "Is This Awesome?" The site also featured popular web series such as the Streamy Award-winning and Webby Award-nominated Anyone But Me.[6] AfterEllen later included news and politics affecting lesbians, bi women, and the general community. Its podcast, Let's Process, ran from 2014 to 2016, and was revived in 2020 as the AfterEllen Podcast. Ownership of the website changed hands in 2006 (Logo), 2014 (Evolve Media), and 2019 (Lesbian Nation).[7][8][9]

  1. ^ "About". AfterEllen. Lesbian Nation LLC. 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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