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Chris Crain
Chris Crain is a managing partner in Window Media, LLC, a lesbian and gay newspaper group that includes the Houston Voice, New Orleans Impact News, New York Blade News, Southern Voice, and The Washington Blade.
A graduate with honors of Harvard Law School and Vanderbilt University, he has served as managing editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and, before law school, as a general assignment reporter for The Tennessean (Nashville). Before returning to journalism in 1997, he practiced law in Washington and Atlanta, taking a significant role in several major gay rights cases, including the first legal attack on the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the child custody case of Sharon Bottoms, the Virginia lesbian whose mother sued for custody of her grandchild after learning of Sharon's sexual orientation. He has served on the national Board of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and on the Board of Directors of the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia.
Contributions
- The Democrat-ization of HRC, by Chris Crain, January 25, 2007
- Howard Dean's Gay Lapdogs, by Chris Crain, May 19, 2006
- Keep Your Eyes on Our “Allies”, by Chris Crain, June 3, 2005
- Putting Rights Before Party, by Chris Crain, October 15, 2004
- Why Marriage Is Priority One, by Chris Crain, August 22, 2003
- Truth, Justice and the Taliban Way, by Chris Crain, September 28, 2001
- The Dirkhising Case: An Obligation to Youth, by Chris Crain, April 19, 2001
- The Dirkhising Case: A Reproach to Gay Culture, by Chris Crain, March 23, 2001
- Value-Phobia in the Gay Community, by Chris Crain, February 12, 1998