Husband David Gerstner
Michelangelo
Signorile (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
HuffPost,
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,"[1] 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.[2]
In August 2011, Signorile was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association LGBT Journalist Hall of Fame.[3]
In November 2012, Signorile was included in the Out magazine annual Out 100.[4]
On July 19, 2013, Signorile married his longtime partner, film historian David Gerstner, at the New York City Hall.
In April 2015, Signorile's fifth book, It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality, was published.[5]
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