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Pride Media and Out magazine appear to have interrupted their payments once again.

An LGBT Web site in London, PinkNews, had done a traffic assignment letter to Out whereby Pride sold ads and shared revenue it generated with the overseas publisher.

In the US, PinkNews was generating about 20 percent of the ad traffic on the Pride Media site, which also includes The Advocate.

But so far, Pride has been withholding the revenue-sharing ad payments.

The company is said to be owed more than $150,000.

In our previous story, Pride Media said that PinkNews was going to be paid by the middle of next week, which would have been on or about March 13.

But that payment has yet to arrive. A Pride Media spokesman said it had something to do with a contract snafu and that PinkNews had neglected to sign a document — but the spokesman insisted that it was in the process of being taken care of.

However, when we checked back with PinkNews, a spokesman said, “Aside from reading statements from Pride Media in The New York Post, we have had no communications from Pride Media in relation to this debt over the past few weeks.”

Oddly, shortly after we relayed this news to Pride Media, it contacted PinkNews. Perhaps the check is in the mail?

Meanwhile, the National Writers Union said that Pride paid about $20,000 of the estimated $50,000 owed to freelancers — but then stopped.

The company said that is also being delayed because it is making good on the payments that it believed were being made by the outsourcing companies, Grand Editorial and its successor, McCarthy Media, which were paid more than $1.1 million to put together the print edition of the magazine, including hiring writers, designers and photographers.

Evanly Schindler, head of McCarthy Media, and Pride Media have accused each other of reneging on deals.

“We are working with the National Writers Union on a solution,” said the Pride spokesman. The situation is complicated as we are paying people whom we never hired.”

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