Media Room
Media and Press Inquiries – Please contact us at:
Bambi Weavil, CEO/Publisher
office: 910-538-4309
email: bambi.weavil@outimpact.com
Press Releases >> Present:
Press Releases >> Past:
- PROFESSIONAL CHEF AND FITNESS TRAINER: Out Impact Finds Out How Bravo’s Jesse Brune Has Worked It Out (July 24, 2008)
- CHARACTER VS. REAL LIFE: Degrassi: The Next Generation’s Adamo Ruggiero Talks To Out Impact About His Gay Character and How It Impacted His Own Coming Out (July 24, 2008)
- ACTRESS EDEN RIEGEL IS NO ‘IMAGINARY BITCH’: OUT IMPACT’S REAL CONVERSATION WITH A VERY INVENTIVE ACTRESS (June 10, 2008)
- COMEDIENNE AND ACTRESS JANEANE GAROFALO TALKS TO OUT IMPACT ABOUT HER GAY FANBASE AND THE ADVANCES MADE IN GAY RIGHTS IN THE PAST DECADE (April 23, 2008) [pdf]
- OUT IMPACT CELEBRATES SYLVIA’S PLACE 5th ANNIVERSARY (March 14, 2008)
- OUT IMPACT LAUNCHES THE “EMPOWER ALL PEOPLE” AIDS CAMPAIGN FEATURING YOUTHAIDS AND ANNIE LENNOX (December 1, 2007)
- LEGENDARY FEMALE RECORDING ARTIST CYNDI LAUPER TALKS CANDIDLY TO OUTIMPACT (June 7, 2007)
Media Coverage of Out Impact >>
Q-Notes December 15, 2007 article: “Out Impact ‘empowers’ community” (part one) (part two)- encore magazine (Editor’s Pick for November 3, 2007)
- Sirius OutQ’s OutQ In The Morning with Larry Flick (October 18, 2007)
- Wilmington Star News October 11, 2007 in-depth article on CEO/President of Out Impact, Inc., Bambi Weavil: “Coming Out Can Be A Worthy Challenge” (article – online version)
- encore magazine (Feb. 6-12, 2008 – vol. 24, pub 30) featured article: “celebrate Love! Valentine’s Day events abound Wilmington” by Shea Carver (featuring UNCW V-Day 2008’s The Vagina Monologues, co-sponsored by Out Impact, Inc. and promo poster)
- Currents February 14, 2008, See This feature article: “Celebrate V-Day: No, Not That One” (featuring UNCW V-Day 2008’s The Vagina Monologues, co-sponsored by Out Impact, Inc.)
- Feministing February 15, 2008, featured interview: “Bambi Weavil: Out Impact” by Celina De Leon
- encore magazine (March 20, 2008) featured article: Art for Social Change: OutWilmington hosts ‘The Impact Art Show’ by Lauren Hodges
- HX (April 18, 2008, issue 867) photographed at our Sylvia’s Place 5th Anniversary celebration on April 2nd, 2008 at SPLASH in New York City, Bambi Weavil photographed with DJ Reed McGowan
- Q-Notes (April 28, 2008 – inside source) featured article: Carolina leaders speak: Spaulding and Weavil
- Think Girl (May 7, 2008), featured essay: I Was There: Out Impact, Inc.
- Soapdom.com – Soapdom Soap Opera Buzz ~ June 2008
- We Love Soaps (June 10, 2008) – Evening News
- Daytime Confidential (June 10, 2008) – Eden Riegel Talks to Out Impact about “Bitches”, Lesbians and “All My Children“
- Echelon Magazine (August 14, 2008) – Live, Love, Be: Out Impact, Inc. Partners With SoulGarden TV
- Venuszine – Fall 2008 – feature in “Coming of Age In The Bush Era” by Amy Schroeder
- Wilmington Star News – January 4, 2009 – front page of Local/State:
Here Now: Activist wants to help local nonprofits raise money, awareness - WHQR – 91.3 FM – Wilmington, NC – Midday Cafe, host Jemila Ericson – radio interview with Jenn Grinels – March 2, 2009
- Encore
- Former Village People cowboy performs for HIV prevention cruise (Wilmington Star News – June 9, 2009 by John Staton)
- Village People Cowboy Performs for HIV Prevention (June 12, 2009 – POZ Magazine)
- Guts.Glam.Grace. – Bambi Weavil – Stepping Out and Making an Impact – October 27, 2009 by Selome Brathwaite
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