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Jenni Olson

Covers:  LGBT film
Come find me at the new place. I'm @jenniolsonsf everywhere. Senior Director, Social Media Safety @GLAAD. LGBTQ film expert. Maker of @RoyalRoadMovie, etc.

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Jenni Olson is a queer media historian, writer and online pioneer. One of the world’s leading experts on LGBT film history, Jenni has written extensively about LGBT film for such publications as The Advocate, Curve Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Indiewire and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her wildly entertaining coffee table tome, The Queer Movie Poster Book was a 2005 Lambda Literary Award nominee. She continues to cover LGBT film-related news for Logo TV’s NewNowNext and for various other we…

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I have fond memories of our old Royal and still have a few of the college papers I typed on it from the early '80s, before I got my Mac!

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Barbara Stanwyck's Ann Mitchell in Meet John Doe.

Who do you wish followed you?

I maintain the illusion that I can instill compassion in others via simply being myself. So, maybe Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle

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