| 词条 | Donna Minkowitz |
| 释义 |
Early life and educationMinkowitz grew up in New York City and graduated from Hunter College High School in 1981.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} CareerIn 1998, she published the memoir Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury (the Free Press ).[3] In that book, she went undercover with several anti-gay Christian Right groups including Focus on the Family and wrote about the things that she, a lesbian leftist, found she had in common with them.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Minkowitz has also written for such publications as Salon.com, The Nation, Ms. magazine, The New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, and The Advocate. In 1999, she penned a controversial creative nonfiction piece for Salon.com about the Matthew Shepard murder, "Russell, Aaron and Me," that explored the emotions of his 21-year-old killers in terms of the terror of sex and intimacy.[4] As part of the preparation for Ferocious Romance, Minkowitz disguised herself as a 16-year-old Christian evangelical boy to write about the Christian right men's group the Promise Keepers for Ms. Magazine in 1995. That article, in which she argued that the Promise Keepers movement was both good and bad for women and feminism, was widely read, and Minkowitz won an Exceptional Merit Media Award for the piece from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College. In 1995, Minkowitz also contributed an essay, "Giving It Up: Orgasm, Fear, and Femaleness" to the influential anthology To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, edited by Rebecca Walker.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} In the decade beginning in the year 2000, Minkowitz underwent treatment for Repetitive strain injury in her arms and shoulders due to computer use, and began work on a book combining memoir and fantasy called Growing Up Golem, which was published in September 2013.[5] In 2015, she began writing a regular restaurant column called Morsels in Gay City News, an LGBT newspaper in New York City.[6] Minkowitz has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show and numerous NPR programs.[7] She reported on the Brandon Teena story, and her Village Voice article on the subject was said by director Kimberly Peirce to have been the original inspiration for the film Boys Don't Cry.[8] Personal lifeShe is from Brooklyn, New York.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Awards and honorsMinkowitz won a GLAAD Media Award.[2] Newsweek Magazine listed her as one of "30 gay power brokers" in the country in 1993.[9] She won a Lambda Literary Award for her memoir, Ferocious Romance.[3] References1. ^ 2. ^1 Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury, The Free Press, 1998, frontispiece. 3. ^1 {{Citation | last = | first = | author-link = | title = Beam Us Back, Scotty! | newspaper = The Nation | pages = | year = | date = March 25, 2002 | url = http://www.thenation.com/archive/detail/6344765 | accessdate =January 28, 2010}} 4. ^ . 5. ^ {{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. 6. ^http://gaycitynews.nyc/category/morsels/ 7. ^ . 8. ^{{Citation | last = Vincent | first = Norah | author-link = | title = A Real Man | newspaper = The Village Voice | pages = | year = | date = November 16, 1999 | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-11-16/news/a-real-man/1 | accessdate =July 9, 2016}} 9. ^{{cite magazine|last=Yarbrough|first=Jeff|date=24 January 1995|title=Advocating Excellence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WMEAAAAMBAJ|magazine=The Advocate|publisher=Here Publishing|page=8|access-date=9 July 2016}} External links
16 : Hunter College High School alumni|Lesbian writers|LGBT writers from the United States|LGBT rights activists from the United States|American activists|American memoirists|Journalists from New York City|Living people|1964 births|Promise Keepers|Lambda Literary Award winners|LGBT journalists from the United States|Place of birth missing (living people)|LGBT memoirists|Women memoirists|American women journalists |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。