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Village Lighthouse's Founder and President Ron Miller Featured in Back-to-Back National Profiles
Village Lighthouse's Founder and President Ron Miller Featured in Back-to-Back National Profiles
Ron Miller featured in Instinct's November 2007 Issue and Genre's December 2007 Issue
 Los Angeles, California — January 21, 2008 — Readers who picked up two of the most popular national gay magazines in the United States, Instinct and Genre, this winter landed on a profiles of Ron Miller, the founder of Village Lighthouse, Inc., a gay and lesbian consumer products company. The 10th anniversary issue of Instinct Magazine, which presents "The Leading Men of 2007," profiles Miller as "Mr. Image Conscious." Genre followed up with a personal profile of Miller in their December issue, naming him a "Gman," an American guy you need to meet. Instinct centers on Miller 's company, Village Lighthouse, while Genre highlights Miller's thoughts on the gay community, politics, and what drives him as a businessman. Together the two profiles present Miller as a focused gay business owner with an up-and-coming company that is already bringing gay consumer products into the mainstream marketplace.
As "Mr. Image Conscious" in Instinct Magazine, Miller is featured as the creator of a multimedia corporation. The feature focuses on Village Lighthouse's efforts to provide consumer products for the GLBT community while providing a platform for new GLBT artists', photographers', and filmmakers' work to be available in the mainstream marketplace. Instinct explains how Village Lighthouse started as a greeting card company for local gay retailers and has since grown to provide a variety of additional products including calendars, posters, postcards and magnets for larger retailers like Barnes & Noble and Borders. The article also highlights Village Lighthouse's emerging entertainment distribution division, Alluvial Filmworks, whose DVD titles are carried by such notable accounts as Amazon.com, Netflix and Blockbuster. In particular, the article mentions Alluvial Filmworks' successful launch of FirstOUT, a gay short film compilation on DVD. It also highlights the successful launch of Bump!, the world's first and most watched gay and lesbian gay travel series., on DVD. Since Alluvial Filmworks' first two Bump! DVD releases in December, the Bump! DVD series has quickly become the number one authority on gay travel throughout the world. Instinct provides an overview of Village Lighthouse as a consumer products company that is conscious of providing a positive image of and for the gay and lesbian community, while maintaining high levels of humor, sentiment, and style.
The recent personal profile on Miller in Genre, is a personal account of a businessman who is family oriented and politically concerned. Miller voices his concern over the recent lack of political accountability, his dreams of Al Gore running for President in 2008, and his belief that the biggest challenge for gay men today is empowerment. All the while, he continuously reiterates his true love is for his partner, his children and his staff at Village Lighthouse who have helped him build one of the largest and most successful gay and lesbian consumer products companies in the world.
To read both articles in their entirety, click here to download a PDF version.
ABOUT VILLAGE LIGHTHOUSE
Village Lighthouse, Inc. is a leading manufacturer, distributor and retailer of gay and lesbian oriented merchandise. Its wholesale divisions, including Alluvial Filmworks, 10% and PROVOCATEUR distribute greeting cards, calendars, posters, postcards, movies, magnets, cologne, male pheromones and other paper products internationally to over 500 accounts. Village Lighthouse's retail divisions include 10percent.com, the leading online shopping destination for the gay community, and OutGreetings (outgreetings.com), an e-card and event planning service that caters to the gay and lesbian community. For more information about Village Lighthouse and its divisions, visit its corporate website at VillageLighthouse.com.
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