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Rights, which divided many in the community regarding its time and purpose and at which a theft occurred at the festival. Signorile reported from Australia and New Zealand, where his partner had taken a position as a professor, and reported on World Pride in Rome in 2000, where activists butted heads with the Vatican, which tried to get the event canceled. During that time Signorile also pioneered Internet radio, webcasting a weekly show on GAYBC.com beginning in 2000, covering the global LGBT community. In an interview, he has described a machine called a "vector" that he would plug into a phone outlet and which allowed him to webcast live via Gaybc's studios in Seattle.(
582: 744:) handheld devices to over 25 million Sirius XM subscribers. Signorile interviews politicians, activists, journalists, authors and other public figures, analyzes news and cultural events, and takes calls from listeners from coast-to-coast. Signorile's show is one of the highest rated programs on the Sirius XM network with an average daily listenership of more than 8.5 million households. Often, Signorile brings on those who are on America's right-wing or are opponents of gay rights, with whom he engages in energetic debates. He is also editor-at-large for 436:, whose comedy routines in the late 1980s were seen by many as homophobic and misogynistic. Clay had said in a 1984 stand-up act that in Hollywood they have "herpes, AIDS and fag-itis." Clay has also mocked pleas for AIDS funding ("get a job, buttfucka"), and used antigay slurs; "they don't know if they want to be called gays, homosexuals, fairies," he has said. "I call them cocksuckers." Signorile saw it as relevant to discuss Geffen's closeted homosexuality in that context. Signorile also outed the gossip columnist 378:, New York's City Hall and other government agencies in the media, criticizing them for what AIDS activists saw as their foot-dragging while people were dying. Though controversial, ACT UP and its tactics have been credited with bringing more attention to AIDS among politicians and the media, and speeding the development and approval of HIV drugs in the 1990s. Signorile also was a co-founding member, along with three other ACT UP members, of the in-your-face activist group 322: 398:(though he believes the discussion has often been distorted by the media, and he opposes using a violent, active verb to define the phenomenon). Signorile has argued in favor of outing from a journalistic perspective, calling for the "equalization" of reporting on gay and straight public figures. He has argued that the homosexuality of public figures—and only public figures—should be reported on when relevant. Signorile was a co-founding editor of the gay magazine 1176:: In Political Quest, Forbes Runs in Shadow of Father. "Mr.Forbes had to contend at the same time with the first published reports in the gay press of his father's homosexuality. His parents were divorced in 1985, and friends say Mr. Forbes did not discuss his father's life with them. But certainly in the last five years of his life, Malcolm Forbes became increasingly indiscreet..." 309:, where he saw a double standard regarding how the media glamorized heterosexuality among celebrities while covering up homosexuality. But Signorile was not political at the time. He was somewhat open about his own homosexuality by that time, but he had not looked at it in the broader context of politics and culture in America. His political awakening came as the 649:, Collard wanted him to tone down his writing. "We had a heated discussion and he insulted my sensibilities and it made me so angry I threw water in his face," Signorile told Wockner. "They did not want me to write biting commentary and opinion. They wanted me to do more feature-driven work and I refused to do that because my column in 465:. Signorile was both praised and attacked for his column. He was called "one of the greater contemporary gay heroes," while his work was also called "revolting, infantile, cheap name-calling" (Johansson & Percy, p. 183). New York Post columnist Amy Pagnozzi compared him to the right-wing, anti-communist 1950s senator, 385:
In May 2017, Signorile was criticized for an article that appeared on the Huffington Post. In the piece, he attacked Donald Trump and the Republican legislators supporting his agenda, stating that no Republican congressman "should be able to sit down for a nice, quiet lunch or dinner in a Washington,
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about the protest, "I jumped up on one of the marble platforms, and looking down, I addressed the entire congregation in the loudest voice I could. My voice rang out as if it were amplified. I pointed at Ratzinger and shouted, 'He is no man of God!' The shocked faces of the assembled Catholics turned
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which believed that he and other writers had inspired government crack-downs on gay sex through their writings. Many other commentators and activists disagreed with Signorile's critics, and fierce debates broke out in both gay and mainstream media. Signorile also inspired much discussion and debate
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as one of taking on the media and the entertainment industry. From the start of the magazine he wrote a weekly column called "Gossip Watch," which was just that—a watch of the gossip columns. He began writing about the media's double standard in reporting on gay and straight public figures, and how
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and inspired a CBS "60 Minutes" treatment of the issue in which Signorile was profiled. Signorile followed up that column with several others that focused on what he saw as some unhealthy aspects of gay culture that contributed to low self-esteem and risk-taking. This eventually grew into his 1997
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that sparked much discussion, titled "Unsafe Like Me," in which he addressed the issue by admitting to have slipped up himself, having had an incident of unprotected sex, and discussed what may have led someone like him—a prominent AIDS activist, immersed in the issues of prevention—to have such a
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upon his death in April 2005.) Signorile has explained that he went to the event solely to watch the protesters who were planning on standing up among the attendees and letting their voices be heard. But he became filled with rage while hearing Ratzinger speak, thinking about the homophobia he'd
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again, and became a columnist for global Internet site Gay.com, which had just merged with the pioneering LGBT site PlanetOut.com. Signorile traveled around the U.S. and around the world, writing online columns. He covered the controversy surrounding the Millennium March on Washington for LGBT
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and in numerous articles and interviews, Signorile has discussed how he began to see that many in the media, among his circles as well, were either sensationalizing AIDS in the 1980s or running away from it. He also began to believe the government was negligent in the face of the epidemic.
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magazine columnist and editor-at-large, Signorile soon was at the center of often-heated debates among gay activists, sexual liberationists and HIV prevention experts about gay male sexual culture and the prevalence of unsafe sex and HIV transmission. Signorile wrote a column for
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that year in a shake up (Michael Goff had been pushed out earlier) in which she had charged sex discrimination. The new editor, from the UK, had been a promoter of the "post-gay" sensibility, which seemed to eschew activism. According to Signorile, speaking to gay journalist
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still refused to name Forbes, only referring to him as "a recently deceased businessman" who was outed. (It wasn't until five years later, during coverage of Forbes' son Steve's run for the Republican nomination for president in 1996, that the
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DC, eatery or even in their own homes", and "should be hounded by protestors everywhere, especially in public ― in restaurants, in shopping centers, in their districts, and yes, on the public property outside their homes and apartments".
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story, claiming that various news outlets were going to report on it, but later decided against it. Eventually, over a period of months, the story was reported in several news outlets, including the
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has always been a space where I could do commentary, political analysis, features, whatever I wanted. I think it's important to have commentary and solidly researched journalism in the same forum."
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for several years, including the groundbreaking two-part cover story "Out at The New York Times"—in which the paper's gay and lesbian staffers, its top editors and its then-new publisher,
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Signorile's Advocate piece, "Out at the New York Times," reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gays in Media, Society and Politics 1999, Larry Gross and James Woods
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to the back of the room to look at me as I continued: 'He is no man of God. He is the devil!'" Signorile was pulled down, handcuffed, and carted off by the police.
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once again, in December 1998, as a columnist and editor-at-large; his first article was a cover piece taking on the notion of a "post-gay' society as espoused by
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Signorile soon became the chair of the media committee of ACT UP, organizing publicity for major, theatrical AIDS activist protests of the time, and taking on the
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that coined the term "outing" at that time, something Signorile has always contended was a biased term. He saw what he was doing as simply "reporting."
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he believed it made gays invisible in the midst of the health crisis. Among those whom Signorile outed at that time included Hollywood producer
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each weekday 2 to 6 p.m. Eastern Time. OutQ, as the only 24/7 LGBT radio channel, broke new ground and Signorile's interviews and monologues
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magazine, put OutWeek on the "In" list, calling it a "must-read" because of its mix of "culture, politics and vicious gossip" (
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experienced as a child and the Catholic Church's decrees. (He was raised as a Roman Catholic.) "Suddenly," Signorile wrote in
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and which focused on closeted antigay politicians, making a case for why media should report on their sexual orientation.
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Gross, Larry & Woods, James (1999) "The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics "
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to call the gay ban "an old chestnut" during an interview with Sam Donaldson on ABC, while then presidential candidate
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Gross, Larry & Woods, James (1999) "The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics"
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amid reports of a drop in circulation and negative response of a focus group to the magazine.) In 2000, Signorile left
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Signorile is noted for his various books and articles on gay and lesbian politics, and is an outspoken supporter of
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Bumiller, Elisabeth 1996, New York Times article on Malcolm Forbes, citing that the multimillionaire was indeed gay
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The media and celebrity culture that Signorile vilified took notice of his work. The chic fashion industry bible,
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Signorile became a gay activist in 1988, after attending a meeting of the controversial grass roots protest group,
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public officials, influencing the debate and treatment of the issue among journalists from that point on. In 1992
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editor and co-founder, the late Sarah Pettit, a long-time colleague of Signorile's who was also an editor at
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within weeks of his death, headlined "The Other Side of Malcolm Forbes." In a subsequent article in
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listed him as one of America's "100 Cultural Elite," and he is included as #100 in the 2002 book,
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and eventually stopped working within ACT UP and Queer Nation, though, like most of the staff of
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The outing controversy became much larger in March 1990, when Signorile wrote a cover story for
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editor Collard. (Within a year after Collard took the post and six months after Signorile left
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gays, animals rights vs. medical research, gay marriage and high-profile antigay hate crimes.
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Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles and the Passages of Life
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Pleasure Principles: Queer Theorists and Gay Journalists Wrestle Over the Politics of Sex
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with a cover story several months later that put him at the center of a firestorm over
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It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality
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The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present
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The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present
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host. His radio program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada on
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magazine abruptly in a disagreement with the new editor James Collard. Former
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as well as outing: he outed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
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In the mid-1980s, shortly after graduating from college, Signorile moved to
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Queer Voices where he blogs opinion pieces and interviews public figures.
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Sirius XM Radio Surpasses 25 Million Subscribers, Raises Full-Year Target
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expanded in the late 1980s and more friends were getting sick and dying.
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Alter, Jonathan. 1992. "The Cultural Elite." Newsweek, October 5: 30–34
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magazine. He has written for many newspapers and magazines, including
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magazine annual Out 100. In April 2015, Signorile's fifth book,
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The Fales Library Guide to the Michelangelo Signorile Papers
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protest he co-organized in New York City in November 2008.
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Queer in America: Sex, The Media, and the Closets of Power
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Queer in America: Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power
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NYC Protest and Civil Rights March Opposing Proposition 8
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In April 2003, Signorile began hosting a radio program,
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Chapter 8, "Outing, Part II," pg. 161 and also noted in
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Signorile has been an editor-at-large and columnist for
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Journalist, Radio host, political commentator, columnist
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Queer In America: Sex, Media, and the Closets of Power.
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revealing the homosexuality of the publishing tycoon
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Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing
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Newhouse School of Public Communications 755:, and an editor-at-large and a columnist for 1336:Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence 496:, Signorile charged a media cover-up of his 1131:Andrew Dice Clay stand-up routine from 1984 941: 394:Signorile has been considered a pioneer of 1429:." June 9, 2009. (accessed June 14, 2009). 1384:Signorile and Ratzinger, Advocate.com 2005 1374:Media Bistro Q & A with Signorile 2002 1333:Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. 1188:Outings and Innings: Media and the Closet. 1158:Signorile, Michelangelo (March 18, 1990), 1089:"Lyrics from Gus-N-Roses One in a Million" 1053:1993. Chapter 5, "Outing, Part I," pg. 70 688:Media Bistro Q & A with Signorile 2002 412:, he maintained deep ties to both groups. 31: 1062: 389: 1406:Sarah Pettit, 36, NY Times Obituary 2003 1233:Sarah Pettit, 36, NY Times Obituary 2003 1007: 580: 320: 1379:The Ethics of Outing by Gabriel Rotello 923: 513:reported on Malcolm Forbes' gay life.) 1465: 1323:. 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Index

Signorile in 2011 at the book launch party for Michael Musto's Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back
Michael Musto
Brooklyn
New York
LGBT
/ˌsnjəˈrɪlə/
talk radio
Sirius XM Radio
editor-at-large
HuffPost
political liberal
gay rights
LGBT
closet
outing
Newsweek
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
Journalist Hall of Fame.
Out
Brooklyn
Staten Island
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
Manhattan
gossip columns
Page Six
New York Post
Liz Smith
New York Daily News
AIDS epidemic

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