Ms Margaret Cho is a staunch supporter of equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans, has contributed her time and talent to dozens of LGBT fundraising events, and is much loved by our community. She received a Task Force Leadership Award (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) in 2003. Ms. Cho has said, 'I'm more than bi(sexual).' She is, indeed, one of us.
Paul Rogat Loeb has spent over thirty years
researching and writing about citizen responsibility and
empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social
commitment, while others abstain.
Alix Olson is a nationally touring folk poet and progressive queer artist-activist. One part peace vigil, one part protest rally, and one part joyful raucous concert, Alix ignites audiences everywhere she performs. Olson's innumerable stage, broadcast, radio and print appearances include, most recently, twice headlining HBO's "Def Poetry Jam" (Russell Simmons), and an inclusion in Utne Magazine's InRadio compilation. Utne's website calls Olson "...the spoken word diva everyone's talking about."
Michelangelo Signorile reports, comments, rants and madly obsesses about politics, media, popular culture and a host of other things that irk and interest him. He covers the gamut of issues, though he began his career--and is best known for--writing on gay politics and culture. Today Signorile hosts a lively four-hour radio program each weekday, on Sirius Satellite Radio. Four hours of his own brand of "conversion therapy -- converting people from that nasty, vicious, perverted and insane right-wing agenda to a more fun, fabulous and enlightened one."
Andrew Sullivan
A contrary but always interesting
conservative, gay journalist.
Rex Wockner has reported news for the gay press since 1985. His work has appeared in more than 325 gay publications in 37 countries. He has a B.A. in journalism from Drake University, started his career as a radio reporter, and has written extensively for the mainstream press as well. Highlights of Wockner's career include going to Denmark the day it first allowed gay "marriage" in 1989, covering the world's first full gay marriages in The Netherlands in April 2001, reporting from the first gay-pride events in Moscow and Leningrad in 1991, traveling to the International Lesbian and Gay Association world conferences and the international AIDS conferences, and making early contact with emerging gay movements in the former East Bloc and developing nations. In the U.S., Wockner has filed stories from the Democratic Convention, the Republican Convention, Creating Change, the NLGJA conference, the GLAAD Awards, Equality Begins At Home, the National Gay Men's Health Summit and major ACT UP demonstrations.
