About Me
I am a 30-something queer activist and writer currently working as the communications manager for a national LGBT-rights nonprofit organization. A relatively new resident of San Francisco, I recently served as the coordinator of Utah Pride 2006 in Salt Lake City. Prior to that, I have held positions as the publications manager for the Sundance Film Festival, editor of Salt Lake Metro (now QSaltLake), and editor of QVegas magazine (formerly Las Vegas Bugle). My activist days stretch back to my college years at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts. Highlights in my political and social activist activities include helping organize the first ever Reno Gay Pride in 1997, membership on the staff and board of Equal Rights Nevada, youth program director for the GLBT Community Center of Las Vegas, five years as a board member and committee chair for Las Vegas Pride (including two years on the executive committee), founding committee member of the Las Vegas National Coming Out Day Festival, membership on the GLBT Community Center of Utah board of directors, and more.
I was raised Mormon, but left the religion as a teenager (a few years before coming out as a gay man). For several years I followed a Pagan/Wiccan path and joined the South Valley Unitarian Universalists Society, but nowadays I embrace my atheist reality. Other labels that sometimes stick and sometimes don’t: radical liberal queer, anti-gun activist, civil rights activist, pro-choice feminist, anti-assimilationist, cheerleader for gay Las Vegas (that one made it in print), Buffy the Vampire Slayer and X-Men fanboy, showtune queen, and Cherry Poppings (a.k.a. the Nevada Gay Rodeo Association’s Miss Closet Ball 2002).
In my free time, I enjoy reading, playing video games, blogging, and amateur photography. I enjoys spending my weekend shopping, exploring the city’s cultural offerings, and going to the gym or hiking through the local parks. I also do my best to kick ass at online and intra-office Boggle games.