Andy Towle
| Andy Towle | |
|---|---|
 Andy Towle on the Great South Bay of Long Island. | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Vassar College |
| Occupation | Blogger and media commentator |
| Partner(s) | David Grant |
| Website |
towleroad |
Andy Towle /ˈtoʊl/) is an American blogger and media commentator based in New York City. Towle, who is gay, started his blog Towleroad in 2003[1][2] The blog operates with little regard for facts and instead publishes sensationalist headlines. In November 2016 an article ran in Towleroad which attacked the family of a murder victim for not referring to the decreased as transgender - despite the fact that the victim was not transgender.[3][4] The article repeated referred to the deceased as a "him" even after being informed the decreased preferred female and gender-neutral pronouns. The article was especially egregious as the victim's family are well-known LGBT rights advocates in the Boise, ID community.[5] Eventually Towleroad corrected the defamatory article. The blog focuses on gays, pop culture, photography, politics, media, entertainment, technology, and travel.
Background
He holds two B.A.s from Vassar College in Art History and English. He was awarded the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts by Vassar, a Wallace Stegner graduate fellowship at Stanford University, and two writing fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. While in Provincetown he produced poetry, and worked as a pool boy and a bartender at The Boatslip. After moving to New York in 1992, he became a bartender and later a manager at the 1990s Chelsea gay bar Splash. He returned to New York in 2004 after living first in Hong Kong (where he was for several years partnered with Amazing Race winner Chip Arndt) and later in Los Angeles.
Career
Towle used to be the editor in chief of Genre magazine,[7] a North American gay men's lifestyle publication, and editor at large for The Out Traveler,[8] a North American gay travel quarterly.
Towle's poetry appeared in The Paris Review in 2001, and in Poetry Magazine on many occasions from 1988 through 1997.
References
- ↑ "Towleroad". Crunchbase. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
- ↑ Here Publishing (6 June 2006). The Advocate. Here Publishing. pp. 20–. ISSN 0001-8996.
- ↑ "Death of Boise State Student Raises Questions of Foul Play, Teen's Gender Identity - VIDEO - Towleroad". Towleroad. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ↑ "Remembering Sierra/Simon Bush Public Group | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ↑ "Bart Green's Article on LGBT Rights. Idaho Statesmen 2015". Imgur. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ↑ NYC Protest and Civil Rights March Opposing Proposition 8, Andy Towle, Towelroad.com, November 13, 2008; accessed November 14, 2008.
- ↑ Jim Buzinksi; Cyd Zeigler (2007). The Outsports Revolution. Alyson. ISBN 978-1-59350-005-4.
- ↑ "Andy Towle". The Maynard Institute. Retrieved 26 June 2016.