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.

Blog Entries by Andy Towle

Gay MN Senator Paul Koering's Email: Same-Sex Marriage a 'Pointless Issue'

Posted March 11, 2009 | 11:32 AM (EST)


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An aide to openly gay Minnesota senator Paul Koering has responded to letters about his recent decision not to support a marriage equality measure in the state with...

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Armistead Maupin on Harvey Milk's Last Love

Posted February 22, 2009 | 11:17 AM (EST)


We couldn't be more pleased to feature two excerpts from the just published MILK: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF HARVEY MILK. Tomorrow, one by Milk screenwriter and Oscar nominee Lance Black. But first, author Armistead Maupin offers not just another look at Harvey Milk, but also another man. Maupin is, of...

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McCain Takes $2300 Contribution from Owner of Gay Sex Site Manhunt

Posted August 14, 2008 | 10:06 AM (EST)


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You may have read about Manhunt.net founders Larry Basile and Jonathan Crutchley (above right) in Michael Joseph Gross' OUT article entitled "Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture?"

Crutchley's political leanings are pointed out near the beginning of the piece:

"Crutchley, a...

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Soulforce Founders Mel White and Gary Nixon Married in Pasadena

Posted June 19, 2008 | 08:08 AM (EST)


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Another high-profile marriage took place on Tuesday. Soulforce and Equality Ride co-founders Mel White and Gary Nixon were married!

Our correspondent, Eric Gutierrez, was there and files this report for Towleroad:

After 27 years they finally made honest men of...

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Gay Soldier from PBS' Carrier Series Speaks out on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Posted April 28, 2008 | 03:20 PM (EST)


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On Friday, I posted an interview with Jeff Dupre, a producer on the PBS special documentary mini-series Carrier. Carrier is a character-driven total immersion in the high-stakes world of a nuclear air craft carrier. A team of 17 filmmakers spent 6...

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