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Michael Luongo

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  • Writer, Journalist, Editor and Photographer, Freelance
New York
As seen in: LinkedIn, CNN, O Globo, The New York Times, The New York Times en Español, Bloomberg News, HuffPost, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and
Covers:  south america, travel, iraq & middle east, human rights, argentina, conflict zones, lgbt rights
Doesn't Cover: fashion
Novelist, writer, editor, photographer, professor, author 16 books-travel, culture, and more on 100 countries all 7 continents. www.michaelluongo.com

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I am a freelance journalist specializing in travel, human rights, and other topics. I have been to over 80 countries and all seven continents, with most work in the Middle East and Latin America.

Michael Luongo’s Journalist Portfolio

Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis' Iraqi Temple

Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis' Iraqi Temple

It was a religion I had never heard of before 2007. During visits to Kurdistan in the north of Iraq that year…

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Relearning Polish History Through the Eyes of My Uncle, a Resistance Fighter

Relearning Polish History Through the Eyes of My Uncle, a Resistance Fighter

As a child in the New Jersey suburbs in the 1970s, I grew up hearing harrowing tales of the Holocaust, often …

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Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots

Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots

The chapel in the small lakeside resort community of Chascomús is at best underwhelming. Its whitewashed bric…

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Evita: Gay Icon Then & Now

Evita: Gay Icon Then & Now

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | As Evita lay dying of cervical cancer in the presidential residence in 1952, her skin sal…

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Belly Dancers in Cairo Clubs Flaunt Sensual Undulations

Belly Dancers in Cairo Clubs Flaunt Sensual Undulations

Tap for Slideshow Even a revolution is no excuse to stop dancing in Cairo. "My family kept calling, telling m…

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Articles

The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages

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While religion in modern days may be more welcoming to LGBTQ members than in the past, a trip uptown to Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park shows a queer sensibility has long been there. From Saint Sebastian to same-sex couplings among the holiest of Christian figures, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages — on view through Sunday, March 29, 2026, at its medieval and religious art-focused Cloisters branch — is a surprisingly queer delight.
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Despite no LGBTQ pavilion, queer presence endures at NY Travel & Adventure Show

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| Gay City News Verified
The annual New York Travel & Adventure Show, which returned to the Javits Center in late January, was a little less colorful than usual — not just because of the snow, but because in this 2026 version, the famed rainbow-filled LGBTQ+ pavilion was missing. Still, as always, there was a sizable LGBTQ+ presence for those who knew where to look.
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My grandmother defended a KKK monster. Are we repeating history? | Opinion

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By Michael Luongo Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Despite so many efforts at distraction, the news still buzzes about the Epstein Files and related emails, implicating President Donald Trump and his intimate circle of accomplices.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I had worked in high school for the Asbury Park Press. They had a high school program then.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

of course!

How is social media changing news?

in some ways it is more accessible, curated if you follow the right people.

Awards

2013 Journalist of the Year, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association

2013 - Journalist of the Year

2013 Journalist of the Year, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association - received for a body of work looking at LGBT rights in Israel, Palestine and Egypt, along with tourism in conflict in the same region, for articles in Bloomberg News, The Global Post, and Gay City News.

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2010 Grand Prize in Travel Journalism, North American Travel Journalists Association

2010 - 2010 Grand Prize in Travel Journalism

2010 Grand Prize in Travel Journalism, North American Travel Journalists Association, given for a body of work largely looking at tourism redevelopment in Iraq for Bloomberg News, covering Baghdad, Babylon and Kurdistan.

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