Mark Hundahl, the straight co-owner of Frontiers Magazine, has died at the age of 61

One of my jobs these days is as a contributing writer to Frontiers magazine.

So I’m very sad to learn that the magazine’s co-owner, Mark Hundahl, has died.

He passed away Thursday at the age of 61. I last saw him at the Frontiers 30th anniversary party at Eleven nightclub in late April where he appeared with co-owner David Stern.

Mark, who was straight, first became involved in Frontiers in 1983. He had just become co-owner of the popular gay Probe disco and invested $5,000 in the new magazine in exchange for two years’ worth of advertising.

According to the book Gay Press, Gay Power, Hundahl eventually moved Probe’s business to a new magazine called Edge, where he met future business partner Stern.

to read more about Hundahl, please go to Karen Ocamb’s LGBT/POV site.