33 Facts About Michelangelo Signorile

Michelangelo Signorile is an American journalist, author and talk radio host.

Michelangelo Signorile is noted for his various books and articles on gay and lesbian politics, and is an outspoken supporter of gay rights.

In November 2012, Michelangelo Signorile was included in the Out magazine annual Out 100.

Michelangelo Signorile was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his early childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Michelangelo Signorile attended the S I Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he majored in journalism.

Michelangelo Signorile 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.

Michelangelo Signorile's political awakening came as the AIDS epidemic expanded in the late 1980s and more friends were getting sick and dying.

Michelangelo Signorile began to believe the government was negligent in the face of the epidemic.

Michelangelo Signorile became a gay activist in 1988, after attending a meeting of the controversial grass roots protest group, ACT UP, in New York.

Michelangelo 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 Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, 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.

Michelangelo Signorile was a co-founding member, along with three other ACT UP members, of the in-your-face activist group Queer Nation.

In May 2017, Michelangelo Signorile was criticized for an article that appeared on the Huffington Post.

Michelangelo Signorile has been considered a pioneer of outing.

Michelangelo Signorile has argued in favor of outing from a journalistic perspective, calling for the "equalization" of reporting on gay and straight public figures.

Michelangelo Signorile was a co-founding editor of the gay magazine OutWeek, which launched in June 1989, and which was quickly at the center of heated debates inside and outside the gay community, including controversies over outing.

Michelangelo Signorile became the features editor at OutWeek, and eventually stopped working within ACT UP and Queer Nation, though, like most of the staff of OutWeek, he maintained deep ties to both groups.

Michelangelo Signorile saw his role at OutWeek as one of taking on the media and the entertainment industry.

Michelangelo Signorile began writing about the media's double standard in reporting on gay and straight public figures, and how he believed it made gays invisible in the midst of the health crisis.

Michelangelo Signorile outed the gossip columnist Liz Smith, whom he maintained helped celebrities and others to present themselves as heterosexual when they were in fact gay.

The media and celebrity culture that Michelangelo Signorile vilified took notice of his work.

Michelangelo Signorile joined The Advocate with a cover story several months later that put him at the center of a firestorm over gays in the military as well as outing: he outed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Pete Williams.

In 1994, Michelangelo Signorile left the Advocate for the then new glossy, Out magazine, which was founded by his friend and OutWeek colleague Michael Goff and former OutWeek editor Sarah Pettit.

In 1995 Michelangelo Signorile published his second book, Outing Yourself, a 14-step program for coming out as gay or lesbian.

Michelangelo 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.

Michelangelo Signorile inspired much discussion and debate with pieces in Out on anti-abortion gays, animals rights vs medical research, gay marriage and high-profile antigay hate crimes.

Michelangelo Signorile traveled around the US and around the world, writing online columns.

Michelangelo 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.

Michelangelo 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.

Michelangelo Signorile is editor-at-large for The Huffington Post Queer Voices where he blogs opinion pieces and interviews public figures.

Michelangelo Signorile has been an editor-at-large and columnist for The Advocate, and an editor-at-large and a columnist for Out magazine.

Michelangelo Signorile has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, USA Today, and Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on many American television news programs, including Larry King Live, Today and Good Morning America.

In particular, Michelangelo Signorile has advocated that gay Americans come out, and has talked about the deleterious effects of the closet both on the closeted individual and on society as a whole.

Michelangelo Signorile has been a long-time champion of the right to same-sex marriage.