Editing Southern Voice (newspaper) (section)

==Financial woes==
[[Avalon Equity Partners|Avalon Equity Fund]], an investment fund that owns several gay media outlets including ''Washington Blade'', ''South Florida Blade'', ''411'' magazine, ''David Atlanta'', ''Southern Voice'' (SoVo) and ''Genre'' magazine was found to be in a condition the Small Business Administration (SBA) refers to as "[[capital impairment]]". This means that Avalon did not maintain the necessary outside investments required under the terms of loans borrowed from the SBA totaling {{US$|38 million}}. A lawsuit filed by SBA revealed that Avalon had little or no outside capital left due to divestiture by investors, losses in revenue or asset values or a combination of the three. Avalon Equity Fund is in receivership with SBA, which will allow SBA to sell off its assets to satisfy the loans.

In November 2009, the paper was shut down because of the financial status of its parent company, Window Media and its majority stockholder, Avalon Equity Fund.<ref>{{Citation |last=Wheatley |first=Thomas |title=UPDATE: Southern Voice, David shut down |newspaper=Creative Loafin |date=2009-11-16 |url=http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/16/southern-voice-david-shut-down/ |access-date=2009-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119160613/http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/16/southern-voice-david-shut-down/ |archive-date=November 19, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Swartz| first = Kristi| title = Southern Voice, longtime gay and lesbian newspaper, shuts down | newspaper = The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | date = 2009-11-16 | url = http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/southern-voice-longtime-gay-199719.html | access-date = 2009-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Southern Voice, David close, cease publication |url=http://www.projectq.us/atlanta/southern_voice_david_close_cease_publication?gid=4362|website=Project Q Atlanta|access-date=16 November 2009}}</ref>