"Gay Media in America" A Roundtable with Ann Northrop, David Badash, Andrés Duque, Michaelangelo Signorile, and Tanya Domi A CLAGS event at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, October 2, 2013. For more information about CLAGS, see our website: http://www.clags.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This roundtable convenes nationally acclaimed gay media professionals to discuss and examine the role of gay media outlets in U.S. and proffer arguments about the vital importance of reporting by gay media outlets known as specialty media. The panel includes Ann Northrop (co-host of a weekly cable Gay USA television program), David Badash (publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Civil Rights Movement forum blog), Andrés Duque (publisher and editor-in-chief of the Blabbeando LGBT blog), and Michaelangelo Signorile (host of OutQ Radio and the Michaelangelo Signorile Show, who are carried by Sirius Radio XM). Tanya Domi, Director of Media Relations at the Graduate Center will moderate the panel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read more about this event and other CLAGS events on the website: http://www.clags.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ann Northrop is a veteran journalist and activist. Her numerous articles have been published widely. Currently, she is a co-host of Gay USA, a weekly national cable show. The hour-long program includes coverage of local, national and international news of interest to the gay community, but is watched by people of all ages, races, genders and sexual orientations. She graduated from Vassar College and began a journalism career at The National Journal in Washington, D.C. In early 1988, Northrop joined ACT UP/New York (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and became deeply involved in "direct action" in the streets, participating in hundreds of demonstrations and getting arrested probably two dozen times for civil disobedience. Her most famous arrest was for lying in the center aisle of St. Patrick's Cathedral during the infamous "Stop the Church" action in December of 1989, for which she was later convicted on four misdemeanor charges. David Badash holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design. He is the founder and editor of The New Civil Rights Movement, a journal of news and opinion on gay rights and marriage equality. He is also a contributing writer at Change, and is syndicated weekly at 365Gay. His work has also appeared in Bilerico. David is the creator of The Great Nationwide Kiss-In, a fifty-city, international gay rights response to the unlawful harassment, detention, and arrest of same-sex couples for kissing in public. He has been a guest on numerous radio programs. Andrés Duque is the author of the award-winning news blog Blabbeando which looks at Latino LGBT issues through a personal perspective. For fifteen years, Duque led a coalition of 15 city-wide Latino LGBT organizations under the name of Mano a Mano and was named to Out Magazine's Top 100 List in 2002. Duque has served on the Executive Boards of New York's Empire State Pride Agenda and the Audre Lorde Project and has been a community adviser to the Stonewall Foundation and the Civil Marriage Collaborative. Michaelangelo Signorile is the host of OutQ Radio and The Michaelangelo Signorile Show, who are carried by Sirius Radio XM. He served as editor-at-large and columnist at The Advocate, and was a columnist for OUT magazine. He's authored several books and written for numerous publications, including The New York Times and USA Today. Signorile has reported from the floor of the Republican National Convention and from the roof of the Vatican. He has hitched a ride with gay truckers barreling down the Wyoming highway, explored Italy's closeted gay underground and visited with New Zealand's first transgender member of Parliament. He has appeared on "Larry King Live," "Good Morning America," "Today," "Paula Zahn Now," "The O'Reilly Factor," "60 Minutes," among others. Tanya Domi is a human rights activist, media and political strategist, writer and professor. She is presently Director of Media Relations at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Domi is also an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University Harriman Institute, and a Master of Arts graduate of Columbia in Human Rights. She serves on numerous boards relating to human rights and in her spare time is the Deputy Editor of The New Civil Rights Movement forum.

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