Name Diane Anderson-Minshall | Role Journalist | |
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Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery Books Blind Leap, Blind Curves, Punishment with Kisses, Blind Faith Similar People Jacob Anderson‑Minshall, Mondo Guerra, Tyler Curry | ||
Diane Anderson-Minshall (born March 19, 1968) is an American journalist and author best known for writing about lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender subjects. She is editor-at-large of The Advocate and editor-in-chief of HIV Plus Magazine. Anderson-Minshall co-authored the 2014 memoir, Queerly Beloved about her relationship with her husband Jacob Anderson-Minshall surviving his gender transition.
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Biography
Born Diane Anderson in Southern California, she moved to Payette, Idaho at an early age. She attended Chaffey College, College of San Mateo and Idaho State University before graduating from New College of California. She took classes at Tulane University, Xavier University of Louisiana, and University of California, Berkeley.
When her partner transitioned, Anderson-Minshall supported him and then examined what it meant to be queer now that their relationship had changed. She and her partner decided to have another wedding ceremony, celebrating their union as husband and wife.
Career
In 1990, she became the editor of the Crescent City Star, a weekly LGBT newspaper in New Orleans. In 1993, she became an editor at On Our Backs, the lesbian erotic magazine founded by Nan Kinney and Debbie Sundahl. A year later, she and fellow On Our Backs employees left the magazine and founded their own publication, the lesbian entertainment magazine Girlfriends. She later became executive editor of Curve. Anderson-Minshall started working for The Advocate in 2011.
During her tenure at Girlfriends and later at other publications including Curve, Anderson-Minshall became known for her celebrity interviews. Dana Plato, Angelina Jolie and singer Sinéad O'Connor "came out" as lesbian or bisexual women in interviews with Anderson-Minshall, although O'Connor and Plato later retracted their statements.
In 1999, Anderson-Minshall founded the short-lived women's lifestyle magazine, Alice. As a freelance writer, she has been published in dozens of magazines including Passport, Bust, Bitch, Venus, Utne and Seventeen. She became an editor at Curve Magazine in 2004 and then became editor-in-chief.
Anderson-Minshall co-edited the anthology of LGBT youth writing, Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Race and Sexuality, and her autobiographical essays have appeared in numerous anthologies. Her first solo fiction, Punishment with Kisses was published in 2009.
Anderson-Minshall co-authored the 2014 memoir Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders with her husband Jacob Anderson-Minshall. The work focuses on how their relationship survived the transition from lesbian couple to husband and wife. The couple previously collaborated in writing the Blind Eye Detectives mystery series (Blind Curves, Blind Leap and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Blind Faith) through Bold Strokes Books. In 2015 Jacob Anderson-Minshall became the first openly transgender author to win a Goldie award from the Golden Crown Literary Society; he shared the award for best creative non-fiction book with Diane Anderson-Minshall for Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders.
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