Michelangelo Signorile
| Michelangelo Signorile | |
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Signorile in 2011 at the book launch party for Michael Musto's Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back
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| Born |
December 19, 1960 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, Radio host, political commentator, columnist |
| Genre | LGBT literature |
| Notable works | Queer in America |
| Spouse | David Gerstner (m. 2013) |
Michelangelo Signorile (/ˌsiːnjəˈrɪlə/; born December 19, 1960) is an American journalist, author and talk radio host. His radio program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada on Sirius XM Radio and globally online. Signorile is editor-at-large for the Gay Voices vertical of The Huffington Post, where he writes regularly. He is a political liberal, and covers a wide variety of political and cultural issues.
Signorile is noted for his various books and articles on gay and lesbian politics, and is an outspoken supporter of gay rights. Signorile's seminal 1993 book Queer in America: Sex, The Media, and the Closets of Power explored the negative effects of the LGBT closet, and provided one of the first intellectual justifications for the practice of outing public officials, influencing the debate and treatment of the issue among journalists from that point on. In 1992 Newsweek listed him as one of America's "100 Cultural Elite," and he is included as #100 in the 2002 book, The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present.
In August 2011, Signorile was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association LGBT Journalist Hall of Fame.
In November 2012, Signorile was included in the Out magazine annual Out 100.
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