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About Me

Since 1994, Watermark has covered your GLBT life in Orlando, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Daytona Beach, the Space Coast & Lakeland/Winter Haven.An estimated 425,000 gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender people live in these six contiguous Metropolitan Statistical Areas.Up to 40,000 copies of Watermark are distributed every other week to two of the Top 10 Gay Metros in the USA and surrounding cities. Orlando ranks 9th and Tampa/St. Petersburg ranks 5th in percentage of gay households, placing the Watermark area of dominant influence in the Top 10 in the USA.

Watermark provides the latest news, arts & entertainment and sports coverage for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Are you looking to have your photography in print? Do you want to get your name and work out into the community? Watermark is always looking for fresh new photographers to contribute. This is an opportunity for your work to reach 40,000+ viewers across Daytona Beach, Orlando, Tampa Bay and Sarasota. Join the ranks of other amazing photographers like Julie Milford, Angie Folks, Rex Maniscalco, Shanna Gillette and Tom Eckert.Send sample JPEGs of your photography and contact information to Art Director Jake Stevens at [email protected]. All emails will be given a reply. We welcome submissions from people of all sexual orientations.

Heroes:

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Greg Burton, Scottie Campbell, Jim Crescitelli, Marcy Davidson, Christine Hawes, Georgia Jenkins, Jeff Jones, Ken Kundis, Renee LePere, Billy Masters, Bryan L. Middour, Stephen Miller, Margaret Nolan, Anthony Paull, Bob Roehr, Ricc Rollins, William Rothstein, John Sullivan, Louanne Walters
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Rex Maniscalco, Julie Milford, Travis Moore, Tom Eckert, William Rothstein
DISTRIBUTION:
Debbie Oliver, John Granstrand, Jonathan Sexauer

My Blog

Issue 15.12 Editors Desk by Ronni Radner

I've been thinking a lot lately about what divides uswithin the GLBT community and simply as American people. Our daily lives are riddled with stress and tension as we attempt to make do in a struggl...
Posted by Watermark on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:15:00 PST

Editor’s Desk Issue 15.11 by Ronni Radner

If it weren't for the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival (without a doubt my favorite annual event in this city, with all due respect to Headdress Ball and Come Out With Pride, my personal ...
Posted by Watermark on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:03:00 PST

Issue 15.09 Editors Desk by Ronni Radner

It feels as though everyone's a bit on edge these days, and that certainly includes me. What's eating me? That $40 tank of gas, the limit on how much rice I'm allowed to buy at the grocery store, watc...
Posted by Watermark on Fri, 02 May 2008 08:43:00 PST

Issue 15.08 Editor’s Desk by Ronni Radner

It's been more than a year since college student Ryan Keith Skipper of Winter Haven was brutally murdered because he was brave enough to be openly and proudly gay in an off-the-beaten-path area in Pol...
Posted by Watermark on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:05:00 PST

Issue 15.07 Editor’s Desk by Ronni Radner

Something’s been really sticking in my craw lately, enough so that I’ve got a raging crawache over it. Excedrin won’t do the trick, so be forewarned: I’m about to go off on a b...
Posted by Watermark on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PST

Issue 15.06 Editors Desk By Ronni Radner

As the months drag on in the land of Democratic Presidential Primaries That Don’t Count for Shit, I am growing restless waiting for a change at the top and a break at the gas pump. I can’t...
Posted by Watermark on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:58:00 PST

Issue 15.05 Editors Desk By Ronni Radner

On so many levels, I fear for the future of the United States of America. After seven years of Bush rule, we have an opportunity to turn things around, and everybody’s so busy bickering about no...
Posted by Watermark on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:55:00 PST

Issue 15.04 Editors Desk By Ronni Radner

There are few better ways to get one’s mind off a possible John McCain presidency than to while away countless hours reading about other people’s sex lives. That’s what I disc...
Posted by Watermark on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:04:00 PST

Editors Desk by Ronni Radner

Yeah, it's clichéd and all that, but what a year 2007 was, and how fast it's gone by! November 26 marked my one-year anniversary as Watermark's editor; ironically, isn't the one-year anniversary tradi...
Posted by Watermark on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:39:00 PST