Diane Anderson-Minshall

Diane Anderson-Minshall (born March 19, 1968) is an American journalist and author best known for writing about lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender subjects. She is editor-at-large of The Advocate and editor-in-chief of HIV Plus Magazine. Anderson-Minshall co-authored the 2014 memoir, Queerly Beloved about her relationship with her husband Jacob Anderson-Minshall surviving his gender transition.

Born Diane Anderson in Southern California, she moved to Payette, Idaho at an early age. She attended Chaffey College, College of San Mateo and Idaho State University before graduating from New College of California. She took classes at Tulane University, Xavier University of Louisiana, and University of California, Berkeley.

In 1990, she became the editor of the Crescent City Star, a weekly LGBT newspaper in New Orleans. In 1993, she became an editor at On Our Backs, the lesbian erotic magazine founded by Nan Kinney and Debbie Sundahl. A year later, she and fellow On Our Backs employees left the magazine and founded their own publication, the lesbian entertainment magazine Girlfriends.'

During her tenure at Girlfriends and later at other publications including Curve Magazine, Anderson-Minshall became known for her celebrity interviews.Dana Plato,Angelina Jolie and singer Sinéad O'Connor "came out" as lesbian or bisexual women in interviews with Anderson-Minshall, although O'Connor and Plato later retracted their statements.

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