In media news, the nation’s oldest gay and lesbian newspaper, the Washington Blade, has abruptly closed. Staffers learned on Monday that the paper’s owner, Window Media, was filing for bankruptcy and immediately shutting down the forty-year-old paper. Window Media was the nation’s largest publisher of newspapers serving the gay and lesbian community. Also shut down Monday were the Southern Voice, David Atlanta, the South Florida Blade, 411 magazine and the Houston Voice.