swervmagazine

SWERV Magazine is a national, quarterly lifestyle magazine featuring accomplishments within the African American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community. Each issue spotlights same-gender loving men and women in visual and performing arts, music, literature, film, television, sports, health, fitness and politics.

SWERV was created by Jamil Fletcher and author/publisher Michael-Christopher in the fall of 2009. Prior to the debut of SWERV, the two published Black Pride Resource Guide, an annual magazine promoting black pride events around the country.

SWERV has featured America's Next Top Model transgender contestant Isis King; lesbian filmmaker, recoding and spoken word artist Hanifah Walidah; recently out gospel singer Ton3x (pronounced toe-nay) and former San Francisco Rockdog point guard DeMarco Majors. SWERV is distributed to over 50 cities in 26 states.