Jeff Yarbrough to Logo: The Advocate Was a Tool for Survival

As The Advocate approaches its 50^th year in print, cable network Logo will honor the LGBT-interest magazine in its third annual Trailblazer Honors this weekend in New York. In commemoration of its long history, Jeff Yarbrough, editor in chief from 1992 to 1996, told Logo why he got involved with the publication. "I took the job at The Advocate because my friends were dying or dead," he said. For LGBT people in that period, a lack of information could mean death -- and thanks to Reagan's head-in-the-sand policy when it came to AIDS, information was very scarce. "No one was really focused on rights," Yarbrough noted. "We were focused on staying alive."

Watch the interview below.