Chris Andoe
Chris Andoe is an author and seasoned activist. After meeting John Aravosis at a Chicago “StopDrLaura.com” protest in 2000, Chris was inspired to organize his own major demonstrations in St. Louis, which drew national attention. Since then, his activism has revolved around LGBT, affordable housing, and mass transit issues. In 2011 Andoe made headlines taking on the amorphous hacker group Anonymous for publishing nude photos of a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesperson, saying “Puritanical shame-based tactics have no place in the capital of sexual liberation”, and he extensively covered San Francisco's jarring gentrification, from mass evictions to the nudity ban. Andoe was on the ground in Ferguson at the height of the unrest, recording events as they unfolded.
Always in the fray, Andoe’s been interviewed by NPR, CBS, and has been quoted from CNN to The St. Louis Post Dispatch.
An excerpt from Delusions of Grandeur recounting last year’s protests.
Natural disasters aside, the city has never gone through a more turbulent time.
A place for those with nowhere else to go needs your help.
Drag is serious grown folks business in the gay community.
Welcome to the new San Francisco.
As the smoke clears I see the passing of the old guard, and the rise of a much more dynamic St. Louis.
Chris Andoe is on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri, reporting live as the grand jury prepares to announce.
Chris Andoe loved using Airbnb, and couldn’t understand why the neighbors were so snippy, until he moved to NYC.
Chris Andoe, who recently moved from SF to NYC, laments the Google Glass(holes) who have ruined his former home.
Nothing woos soccer moms and millennials like making Charlie Manson’s younger brother your party’s new posterboy.
Another mass-murder in America by gunfire. It’s time for candlelight vigils & other meaningless gestures.
Mary Cheney gave anti-gay Romney $2500. Backbones don’t suddenly develop at 45, when they were non-existent at 44.