22 Facts About Doug Ireland

William Douglas Ireland was an American journalist and blogger who wrote about politics, power, media, and LGBT issues.

Doug Ireland was the US correspondent for the French political-investigative weekly Bakchich, for which he wrote a weekly column, and he was the Contributing Editor for International Affairs of Gay City News.

An early member of the Dump Johnson movement, Ireland was recruited for the staff of the presidential campaign of the man who became the anti-war candidate of the Dump Johnson movement, Senator Eugene McCarthy, for whom Ireland coordinated the Mid-Atlantic region of states.

Doug Ireland managed Abzug's 1976 campaign for the Democratic nomination for US Senator from New York, which Abzug narrowly lost by 0.10 per cent of the vote to Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Doug Ireland did end up working on the Samuels campaign, which lost the Democratic primary to then-Rep.

Doug Ireland played a studio executive in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories.

Doug Ireland lived for ten years in France, writing on European politics and culture for various publications, including English language Paris city magazine, Paris Passion magazine; and he continued to write frequently about French and European politics and foreign affairs.

Doug Ireland was an assiduous promoter in the United States of the work of the prolific young French philosopher Michel Onfray.

Doug Ireland was a columnist for The Village Voice, The New York Observer New York magazine, and the Paris daily Liberation, among other publications.

Doug Ireland was a contributing editor of POZ, the monthly for the HIV-positive community, of the magazine In These Times, and the French satirical news website Bakchich.

From mid-2005, Doug Ireland was the Contributing Editor for International Affairs of Gay City News, the largest LGBT weekly newspaper in New York City and in the US.

Doug Ireland's reporting on Iran in the several years after 2005 drew harsh rebuttals from a number of Iranian activists, as well as from Scott Long, director of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.

Doug Ireland continued to produce articles claiming a pattern of "anti-gay" executions in Iran.

In particular, Long claimed that Doug Ireland had unduly promoted the career of the flamboyant Russian activist Nikolai Alekseev while ignoring other Russian groups.

Doug Ireland was born in Duluth, Minnesota and later lived in Port Hueneme, California, where his father worked in the information office of the Naval Battalion Construction Center.

Doug Ireland developed polio as a child as the result of his Christian Scientist parents refusing to allow him to receive the polio vaccine.

Doug Ireland often felt too ill to leave his apartment or have company.

Doug Ireland died in his East Village home on October 26,2013.

At an early age, Doug Ireland was part of the early 1960s American New Left.

Doug Ireland was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, and was elected to its National Council in 1963 at the age of 17.

Doug Ireland dropped out of SDS in 1966 to devote his time to electoral organizing against the Vietnam War.

Doug Ireland was involved in the Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Front.