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Angeline Acain
Publisher/Editor
Angeline has 20 years of magazine publishing experience, having created and produced five magazines in the course of her career. In the late 1990s, becoming a parent inspired Angeline to create Gay Parent magazine. Originally from Hawaii, she enjoys spending her leisure time with her partner Susan and their daughter.
Flavia Francesquini
Assistant Editor
In addition to being a writer, Flavia is a certified wellness counselor, life coach and parent coach. Originally from Brazil, she is a Smith College graduate and lives in Massachusetts with her teenage son. Flavia is a regular contributor to eXpression! an LGBT magazine in Hawaii and other publications.
Vivian Schepis
Senior Advertising Sales Representative
Vivian has a bachelors degree in psychology and is an accomplished artist who has studied art throughout much of her life. She has been working with Gay Parent magazine for 5 years and lives on Long Island with her family. In her spare time she enjoys painting, art museums, hiking, relaxing on the beach and long talks with her friends.
Todd Briscoe
Advertising Sales Representative
Todd was raised in Texas and relocated to Brooklyn in 2003. He has worked for several years in Broadway marketing, and is very active in the New York comedy/improv scene.
Brett Cohen
Webmaster and Graphic Designer
Brett has been a graphic designer for over 15 years and lives with his wife and daughter on Long Island. He can often be found enjoying various outdoor activities and at the beach with his family.
Ben Suazo
Marketing and Administrative Assistant
Ben has 25 years professional Advertising and Marketing experience. He was the LGBT Partnership Specialist for the US Census Bureau’s New York region to build awareness and motivate participation within the LGBT community in the 2010 Census. Ben resides in Manhattan with his partner, their son and their dog.
Jiana Eisenberg
Circulation and Administrative Assistant
Jiana lives in New York City; she enjoys learning American Sign Language and spending time with her friends, family and pet rabbit.
Albert Guevara
Administrative and Expo Exhibit Assistant
Albert Guevara has been working with Gay Parent magazine since 2004.
Regular Editorial Contributors:
Stacy Graffam - Stacy is a sales support leader at IBM with more than fifteen years of experience in project management, sales strategy and people management. She manages a team of sales support professionals who specialize in proposal management services. She designed and implemented a mentoring program available to more than 300 employees in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and also co-founded a Working Parents Community for employees who balance parenthood and employee responsibilities. She lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with her partner and their two children. She writes a blog, Out In Suburbia http://outinsuburbia.blogspot.com
Sophia Hantzes - Sophia has been photographing and archiving the LGBTQIA community since the early 1990s. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has also photographed the WNBA since 2000, and Big Ten Women's Basketball since the mid-nineties.
Stewart Lewis - Stewart is the author of the novels Rockstarlet and Relative Stranger both from Alyson books. He is also a singer-songwriter signed with Here! TV/Regent Entertainment’s music label Here! Tunes. He lives in New York City and western Massachussetts with his daughter. Visit www.stewartlewis.com
Tony Zimbardi-LeMons - In addition to being a writer, Tony is a psychotherapist in private practice. He lives with his partner and two children in West Hollywood, California. He is the author of Forever Dads, A Gay Couple's Journey to Fatherhood. Visit www.drtonyzimbardi.com
Gay Parent magazine is the longest running, nationally distributed publication dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parenting (LGBT).
In September 1998, Gay Parent magazine's (GPM) web site was launched online. Within two hours email from enthusiastic readers began pouring in. Gay Parent magazine's first print issue was published one month later. GPM is published bi-monthly and distributed mainly free through gay community centers and bookstores across the USA. Gay Parent magazine's focus is to support and empower LGBT parents and LGBTs wishing to become first time parents.
In 2003, the first issue of New York Gay Parent Guide was published. This magazine is published annually and distributed only in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and targets LGBT parents living in this area. In 2006 the guide's name was changed to Gay Parent magazine-New York.
Angeline Acain and Albert Guevara (white shirt) posing with "Cher" and "Prince" at the Original GLBT Expo in New York City, March 2011. Albert and Angeline hand out hundreds of copies of Gay Parent magazine each year at the expo. See another photo on our Advertise With Us page
