Bay Windows, a member of the New England Press Association and the National Gay Newspaper Guild, is the largest LGBT newspaper in New England. It is published every Thursday, and is distributed free in Boston, Massachusetts and around the greater Boston area. Bay Windows was created in 1983 by the founding publisher Sasha Alyson, was purchased in 1985 by James Hoover, and then sold to Jeff Coakley and Sue O'Connell in 2003.