Andy Towle, Founder

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Founder/Partner/President, Towleroad

Andy Towle’s experience in media and entertainment spans several industries. He currently writes and runs the widely-read gay news blog Towleroad. Before Towleroad, he was Editor in Chief of Genre magazine, a nationally distributed gay men’s lifestyle publication, and Editor at Large for The Out Traveler, a national quarterly publication produced by LPI Media. Prior to that he was a Music Editor for Tribe Online USA, where he produced and edited a content-heavy website for an Australia-based media company. He worked in feature film development at Twentieth Century Fox for four years, assisting in the development of over thirty projects for their Feature Animation and Family Films divisions. He holds degrees in Art History and English from Vassar College, and was awarded a Wallace Stegner graduate fellowship at Stanford University, as well as two writing fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His writing has been published widely.

Twitter: @andytowle

Michael Goff

 

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Partner/CEO, Towleroad & Modurban Media

Michael and Andy have been business partners in Towleroad, ModUrban Media and other projects since May, 2006. In the 90s, he founded Out magazine (and out.com) after working as a magazine editor. He was editorial director of Sidewalk, Microsoft's online city guide that was later sold to Citysearch; General Manager of MSN.com; and managing partner of The Accelerator Group. He also built and folded a mobile publishing company, was Dan Gilmore's partner in launching early citizen-journalism effort, Bayosphere; has advised startups including (pre-Google) Blogger, Treehugger.com, and NowPublic.com. He's served on the Outfest and CRIA boards, was an early ACTUP member, wrote the Gaydar media column for Outweek, and more recently was the Clinton Foundation AIDS Initiative volunteer Lead in Haiti for a year. He's based in Venice, California. It's more a place for experiments than a blog, but more about Michael on Goffspot. 

Twitter:@michael_goff

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Ari Ezra Waldman

Ari Ezra Waldman is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College and a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School. After practicing in New York for five years and clerking at a federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., Ari is now on the faculty at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. His areas of expertise are criminal law, criminal procedure, LGBT law and law and economics. He is the legal analyst for Vegas All Net radio's, "The Sausage Factory" program and a frequent legal analyst on local and national television news. Ari writes weekly posts on law and various LGBT issues. 

Twitter: @ariezrawaldman

Sam Greisman

Sam Greisman is Towleroad’s intern and writes the 'Towleroad Talking Points' posts. He is a recent graduate of New York University, majoring in Communications, and spent his first post-graduate year working for New York magazine.

Sam grew up in Los Angeles and now resides in New York.

Twitter: @samgreis

Brandon K Thorp

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Brandon K. Thorp is a 28-year-old essayist and journalist working in Brooklyn. He worked for five years as a drama critic and investigative reporter with Village Voice Media, for whom he won two Green Eyeshade Awards. In 2010, a story Thorp co-wrote with his partner, Penn Bullock, exposed anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers's international affair with a male prostitute. As a result, Thorp and Bullock won a 1st place award for Feature Writing with the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and went on to produce a 4-part documentary for Anderson Cooper, which examined the results of Rekers' clinical research. Before moving to New York, Thorp worked for three years as a drama critic with Miami's NPR affiliate, WLRN. Thorp currently serves as a guest anchor on Sirius XM's OutQ radio channel, and frequently writes for Gawker.com.

Steve Pep

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Blogs Saturdays and Sundays on Towleroad. Steve has written for many online publications, focusing initially on film and television. He's been writing about all aspects of LGBT culture since 2005 and was one of the original editors of Queerty.  You can find him blogging and chatting with media personalities at his own site, Soup Cans.  he is a graduate of Emerson College. Born and raised in Boston, Steve is constantly traveling and currently resides in Los Angeles.