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I’m running the 2007 Florence Marathon and this time want to raise $25,000. Can you help?

I ran the 2006 Florence Marathon and wrote about it in Newsweek.

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I won a national journalism award -- Excellence in Online Journalism -- for a series I wrote about prison (see below).

The award is given by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and the Radio-Television News Directors Association.

Arrested Justice: When LGBT people land in jail - A five-part series for Gay.com & PlanetOut.com

A frightening odyssey
Rape and HIV are all too common
Transgender inmates: “You are your birth certificate”
The myth of “protective custody”
What if you get arrested?

I traveled to Guatemala with the Rainbow World Fund, an LGBT humanitarian aid group. Read about the trip here. Beautiful for who they really are: photo exhibit of transgender men and women
 
Stamping out hunger in San Francisco
Home work: HIV and the affordable housing crisis

What me sue? Make your health your boss's business
 
May 2006 TransActions
Trans Porn: Buck Angel's new flick, and TransGender Erotica
My surprise gift, fangs included – I got a tarantula for Christmas.
 
Gay monk brings meditation to LGBT Center – far from the ravages of crystal meth, a Buddhist monk finds meditation and contentment JT LeRoy hoax angers LGBT fans, writers
 
March of the Zealots: Penguins and America’s cultural war  

 

 
Study details incidence of HIV in prisons
 
award

In September, 2003, I won the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Media.

 
 
biography

Patrick Letellier started writing in the late 1980s. He is co-author of the first book on gay male domestic violence, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them, published in 1991, and has written chapters on abuse for several other books and journals.

Throughout the 1990s he wrote pieces for the gay and straight press, and worked for a year at The Slant, a San Francisco Bay Area gay paper. He wrote a monthly political column, headline news stories, features and reviews, and was Assistant Editor, recruiting and editing new writers for the paper.

 

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He writes for the Advocate, POZ, PlanetOut/Gay.com, Out Q Radio, and other gay media outlets nationwide. He also writes a monthly column for the Good Times, an alternative-weekly in Santa Cruz, CA, and We The People, a gay paper out of Santa Rosa, CA. In the gay press, Patrick’s writing has appeared in the New York Blade, Bay Windows (Boston), Ohio People’s Chronicle, Frontiers (San Francisco and Los Angeles), The Bottom Line (Palm Springs), Lesbian News (Los Angeles), and Seattle Gay News..

His articles have also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Santa Cruz Sentinel, New Haven Register, Peoria Journal-Star, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Tallahassee Democrat, New London Day (CT), Berkeley Daily Planet, Terrain (a Northern California environmental magazine), San Francisco Medicine, on AlterNet.org, Progressive.org, and in other papers and websites.

He wrote about places and events in Santa Cruz for America Online’s Digital City, a nationwide entertainment news website.

He writes and edits reports for non-profit organizations, including the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Community United Against Violence, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center, and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects.

Patrick taught Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Politics and Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2003.

 
© Patrick Letellier