[9] In 1983, after the Telegraph ran an article about the National Association of Business Councils successfully negotiating a policy change with the Miller Brewing Company, for no discrimination based on sexual orientation, the white supremacist newspaper Thunderbolt, called for a boycott of the brewery.

[13][14] Additionally in 1988, the Telegraph covered Sasha Alysons "Clip Your Visa" campaign, which was a protest of the credit company's support of the "anti-gay US Olympic Committee".

Jon Barnett, who was a founding member of the Kansas City ACT UP, joined the newspaper as an associate editor in 1991.

Barnett said their main focus was to cover news that the mainstream media overlooked, like instances of LGBT discrimination and gay-bashing.

[19] In 1991, Barnett became the first openly gay resident of Kansas City to run for public office for the KC council.

[20] After his loss in the primary, he continued writing for the newspaper, and Mayor Emanuel Cleaver installed him as a member of the Commission on Gay and Lesbian Concerns of KC.

[18] A major scoop for the newspaper occurred in 1992, when St. Louis passed one of the most substantial LGBT rights ordinances in the country.

[4] The company specialized in LGBT media, and they went "belly-up" in December 1999, which left the newspaper "holding the bag on thousands of dollars," Thomas claimed.

"[23] In March, Thomas relented and signed on as the editor for a year of the newly minted newspaper, titled the Vital Voice.

[22] By 2009, the newspaper with now a circulation of 30,000 free copies, had become a financial strain on Scheider, and as she recalls, "my well had run dry", so she suspended publication of the paper in September 2009.

'"[22] In 2009, Darin Slyman, owner of OMNI media, bought the Voice from Schneider, and turned it into a high-gloss LGBT magazine.