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Jennifer Vanasco
Jennifer Vanasco is editor-in-chief of 365Gay.com. She writes an award-winning weekly column for the Chicago Free Press, as well as book and theater reviews. Her columns are also published in the Philadelphia Gay News, Atlanta's Southern Voice, Houston Voice, the Washington Blade and other papers. She blogs daily on the gay political website VisibleVote08.com.
Her work has also been published in the anthologies "I Do, I Don't: Queers On Marriage" and "Reading the 'L Word." She has written for the Chicago Tribune, Newsday and other publications. She is a former Deputy Director of Mayor Bloomberg's Office of Correspondence.
Vanasco graduated from Wellesley in 1994, where she majored in philosophy and was editor in chief of the Wellesley News and chief justice of College Government. She taught freelance journalism at the University of Chicago's extension school for 10 years, runs writing workshops, and coaches new writers. She lives in Manhattan with her dog Max.
Her personal website and blog is jennifervanasco.typepad.com. She can be reached via e-mail.
Contributions
- Being Out, by Jennifer Vanasco, October 1, 2008
- GOPhobia, by Jennifer Vanasco, September 11, 2008
- What I Saw at the Convention, by Jennifer Vanasco, September 4, 2008
- A Pragmatic Pick, by Jennifer Vanasco, August 27, 2008
- Let Liberty Ring!, by Jennifer Vanasco, July 3, 2008
- A Risk, Not Just a Right, by Jennifer Vanasco, May 27, 2008
- Ordinary, Like Us, by Jennifer Vanasco, May 7, 2008
- Laughing With Us, by Jennifer Vanasco, April 29, 2008
- We Are Everywhere, by Jennifer Vanasco, April 24, 2008
- Civil Unions: A Bust in New Jersey, by Jennifer Vanasco, February 24, 2008
- Single, Without Children, by Jennifer Vanasco, February 20, 2008
- Not Your Father's Evangelicals, by Jennifer Vanasco, October 31, 2007
- Don’t Smirk at Craig—Wince, by Jennifer Vanasco, September 5, 2007
- Being Christian, by Jennifer Vanasco, May 23, 2007
- General Pace's War on Consistency, by Jennifer Vanasco, March 21, 2007
- De-Coulterizing Republicans, by Jennifer Vanasco, March 6, 2007
- Too Sensitive About Snickers, by Jennifer Vanasco, February 14, 2007
- C’mon—Get Happy, by Jennifer Vanasco, January 17, 2007
- A Word that Matters, by Jennifer Vanasco, November 1, 2006
- Spooked by Gay Republicans, by Jennifer Vanasco, October 25, 2006
- Foley Is No Pedophile, by Jennifer Vanasco, October 6, 2006
- The Up Side of Apathy, by Jennifer Vanasco, September 20, 2006
- Another Casualty of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, by Jennifer Vanasco, August 2, 2006
- The Myth of Red and Blue, by Jennifer Vanasco, July 21, 2006
- Talking to Evangelicals, by Jennifer Vanasco, June 25, 2006
- Confessions of a 'Grup', by Jennifer Vanasco, May 11, 2006
- I Am a Gay American, by Jennifer Vanasco, June 22, 2005
- Not Just a Right — a Rite, by Jennifer Vanasco, August 25, 2004
- Suffer the Children, by Jennifer Vanasco, February 4, 2004
- The Good Word about The L Word, by Jennifer Vanasco, January 28, 2004
- Here's To You, Bishop Robinson, by Jennifer Vanasco, November 5, 2003
- Harvey Milk High: It's Not the Answer, by Jennifer Vanasco, August 13, 2003
- 'Queer Eye': In Praise of Gay-Straight Bonding, by Jennifer Vanasco, July 23, 2003
- Protecting Privacy, by Jennifer Vanasco, April 30, 2003
- Happily Ever After, by Jennifer Vanasco, March 26, 2003
- Coming Out for a Cause, by Jennifer Vanasco, March 20, 2002
- Future without Shock, by Jennifer Vanasco, March 20, 2002
- One Judge's Outburst, by Jennifer Vanasco, February 27, 2002
- Families United in Law, by Jennifer Vanasco, February 13, 2002
- Richard Goldstein's Heresy Hunt, by Jennifer Vanasco, November 14, 2001
- The Gay Money Curse, by Jennifer Vanasco, August 8, 2001
- Battling Bullies, by Jennifer Vanasco, May 9, 2001
- Our Families' Fears, by Jennifer Vanasco, May 2, 2001
- Boring Is Beautiful, by Jennifer Vanasco, June 10, 2000
- The Healing Power, by Jennifer Vanasco, June 7, 2000
- Scouting for Justice, by Jennifer Vanasco, May 3, 2000
- 'Queer Dominance Syndrome', by Jennifer Vanasco, October 20, 1999
