Special Media SDL is a German LGBT Magazine and Online Media for the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bi- and Trans*sexual) target audience.

[1] Special Media SDL's most well-known publication is the Berlin City Magazine, the Siegessäule,[2] which has been in existence since 1984 and has the biggest print run for a city magazine in Berlin and the whole of Germany.

[3] The publisher also produces the L-MAG, a magazine for lesbians, which was founded in 2003 and is available at book stores and newsagents throughout Germany, as well as in Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

[4] Special Media SDL was established as a journalistic special interest publishing house in May 2012, by journalists Gudrun Fertig and Manuela Kay.

[5] Both Fertig and Kay were employed for a long time as editors in chief in Jackwerth Publishing and are, inter alia, both company directors of Special Media SDL.