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GLAAD's top 10 nearest neighbors span magazines, websites, political groups, news publishers, and a non-profit — with no single entity pulling far ahead of the rest, and scores compressed between 0.96 and 0.94.
The shape is flat: BuzzFeed LGBTQ leads at 0.96, followed closely by SPIN (0.95), Bust Magazine (0.95), The Advocate (0.95), and Democratic Socialists of America (0.95). The subcategory breakdown across the top 10 is telling: four are magazines (SPIN, Bust Magazine, The Advocate, Pitchfork), two are political groups (Democratic Socialists of America, Justice Democrats), two are news publishers (VICE News, HuffPost Queer Voices), one is a website (BuzzFeed LGBTQ), and one is a non-profit (Human Rights Campaign) — the only neighbor sharing GLAAD's own subcategory. The mix is cross-kind by design: progressive print and digital media sit alongside left-leaning political organizations, with no single category dominating. The presence of Pitchfork alongside The Advocate and Justice Democrats at nearly identical scores signals that the audience shape here is defined less by any single topic than by a consistent cultural and political orientation that cuts across media formats.
The flat, tightly banded cluster suggests an audience with a coherent profile that maps onto a broad range of progressive media simultaneously rather than concentrating around any one outlet or cause.
