Here Media Company Description

Here Media Inc. offers original programming content tailored for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community on a subscription basis.

The company publishes magazines and books, as well as operates companion Websites targeting the LGBT community.

Its products include the magazines Out, The Advocate, and HIVPlus, as well as books published by Alyson Books, which are distributed through traditional newsstands, other retail outlets, and by subscriptions of print and digital editions of the magazines.

It also operates PlanetOut, an online media company serving the LGBT community through its website Gay.com, a social networking Website; and a companion Website, heretv.com that features original shows, podcasts, news, and other entertainment, as well as a library of LGBT-themed streaming video.

In addition, the company provides subscription video-on-demand and/or regularly scheduled television channel services through cable, satellite, and fiber-optic television providers serving domestic television households in the United States; and syndicates free-to-the-user content to Websites, including msn.com and aol.com.

It serves customers through cable television, direct-to-home satellite television, fiber-optic television, and the Internet under the brand name “here!”.

The company is was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.