
Combining three publications onto one platform
This current Stonewall News Northwest (SNN) is an independent LGBTQA+ publication by Mike Schultz launching in spring 2025. Under the corporate umbrella of Stratus Group LLC, this site merges print publications Stonewall News Northwest and Q View Northwest Mike Schultz previously published serving Spokane and the Inland Pacific Northwest with Coastal Pride he also published more recently serving Ocean Shores and southwest Grays Harbor County. Mike Schultz also acquired and published SGN (Seattle Gay News) before turning its publishing reigns over to current publisher Renee Raketty in 2024. While SNN and SGN collaborate together, SGN primarily serves the Seattle, WA and regional Puget Sound area and is separate from SNN.
SNN centers on informing and empowering our LGBTQA+ communities, the fringe, marginalized - and increasingly threatened - segments of our populace. We share discourse centered on diversity, equality, dignity and other attributes of a civil, mindful, progressive society.
Combining our news and information experience from multiple smaller individual platforms and sources defragments our LGBTQA+ communities and efficiently pools resources for better sustainability and stronger voices.
With more agility and scalability, the merged reboot of these publications on this single platform shifts their news and magazine business models to include broader content sources and multiple revenue streams, evolving with the changing ways we share news and information in print, and online.
All of the articles on this site are currently free but will transition into a mix of free and subscriber-based content. Your monthly or yearly subscription fuels the independent journalism that powers this site and your voice. Your support makes this site possible, and allows SNN to continue to exist. Thank you!
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About Mike Schultz

Stonewall News Northwest's publisher, and Stratus Group LLC owner, Mike Schultz has lived in Washington State in the heart of the Pacific Northwest all of his adult life. While his professional business acumen spans a wide range of industries and environments, his passion centers on LGBTQ equality and civil rights. Over the last two decades he has published in print and online Stonewall News Northwest, Q View Northwest, Coastal Pride and Seattle Gay News.
Mike spearheads vision and objectives, organizational initiatives and manages processes, but the backbone of his support, and his sounding board, is husband and partner of 20 years, Steven. From helping Mike deliver print Stonewall and Q View papers through winter snow drifts in Spokane decades ago to helping tie up loose ends of more recent SGN (Seattle Gay News) and Coastal Pride issues on the other side of the state in Seattle and Ocean Shores, Steven shares Mike's passion for equality and finding where we can all fit in to be a part of progress.
"We can all find ways to position ourselves for positive change", Mike says, "no matter how bleak the present may be." He adds, "I see activism as a state of cause-driven being that can take many forms shaped by our abilities, initiative and circumstances. Some of us can be very visible, others can be behind the scenes. And we can all be effective and individually contribute to a common cause and community bigger than ourselves. And my contribution happens to be my passion: bringing together writers and photographers and editors and all the talented kindred souls who make things cohesively happen to help make our lives more informed, insightful, accepting and celebrating life's rich diversity all around us. We are all born beautiful creatures of the universe innately deserving of joy, dignity and equality."
Mike can be reached at: publisher@stonewallnews.net