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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 the Gay Voices vertical of The Huffington Post, 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,"〔Alter, Jonathan. 1992. "The Cultural Elite." Newsweek, October 5: 30–34〕 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''. In August 2011, Signorile was inducted in the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association LGBT Journalist Hall of Fame.〔()"Journalists Honored for Work in Media, Activism," The Advocate, August 1, 2011〕 In November 2012, Signorile was included in the ''Out'' magazine annual Out 100.〔Out 100 2012, ("Out 100: Michelangelo Signorile," ) Out, December 2012.〕 In April 2015, Signorile's 5th book, (''It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality' )', will be published. == Early years == Signorile was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent his early childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Brooklyn and Staten Island. He attended the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he majored in journalism. It was in those years that he came to realize his own homosexuality, but remained closeted to many friends and to family. In the mid 1980s, shortly after graduating from college, Signorile moved to Manhattan. Among his first jobs, he worked for an entertainment public relations firm that specialized in "column-planting", a term for getting clients into New York City's gossip columns, such as Page Six in the ''New York Post'' and Liz Smith, then at the ''New York Daily News''. This required collecting and trading in gossip, often about celebrities' private lives. Later, he became a gossip columnist himself. It was in that world, as Signorile describes in his book ''Queer in America'', 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 AIDS epidemic expanded in the late 1980s and more friends were getting sick and dying. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michelangelo Signorile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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