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Michael Broder

New York
As seen in: Color Research & Application, HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Kickstarter, PLOS ONE, QJM, Educational Studies, Substack, Taylor & Francis Online, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association and
Covers:  gender, sex, culture, lgbt, camp & drag, hiv, lgbt health, queer theory, critical theory
White, working-class, gay, Jewish, poet, editor, teacher, PhD, living with HIV. Founding publisher of @IndolentBooks and @HIVHereAndNow

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My name is Michael Broder and I am The Queer Classicist, a freelance writer with a PhD in Classics from the City University of New York and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. I write about sex, gender, and kinship from my own perspective as a same-sex married gay man but also informed by perspectives including queer theory, feminism, and cultural materialism (this list is representative, not exhaustive). That means I write a lot about tops and bottoms, butches and fems, poz and neg, cis and t…

Michael Broder’s Journalist Portfolio

My Virus, My Husband, And Me

My Virus, My Husband, And Me

My marriage is haunted by ghosts. Ghosts of boys I loved and lost long before I met my husband. Three boys I …

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Drag Queen Culture Divide: Breaking Down What Happened On This Week's Snatch Game

Drag Queen Culture Divide: Breaking Down What Happened On This Week's Snatch Game

As Rich Juzwiak points out on Gawker, this week's RuPaul's Drag Race featured the best celebrity impersonatio…

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Help Spread The Word About New Health Warning for Men Who Have Sex With Men

Help Spread The Word About New Health Warning for Men Who Have Sex With Men

Six months after issuing its first alert about a deadly meningitis outbreak among gay men in New York City, t…

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Truly Nolen unveils new website to help promote internal growth

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By Joey Ciccolini, Pete Schopen, Michael Broder
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Truly Nolen Pest Control will celebrate its career week February 17-21. The company is set to unveil a new website, where any team member can begin to chart their own course. “As career development goes hand-in-hand with retention, we wanted to create a way for our team members to feel empowered to follow the direction that interests them,” said Jeff Bohne, director of human resources, Truly Nolen.
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With a healthy family, business is now the focus

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By Pete Schopen, Michael Broder, Jim P. Fredericks, Heather Gooch Verified
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Thirteen years ago, Brian Zahringer’s world was unraveling. The father of two little girls felt helpless as his wife, Amber, began suffering from epileptic-type seizures. The seizures were mild at first but eventually strengthened and became more frequent. A little while after the seizures started, their younger daughter, Mackenzie, started having problems in school. The 6-year-old exhibited anger issues, including throwing chairs.
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Run your Business: Buck the status quo to conquer BHAGs

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By Michael Broder, Sheri Spencer Bachman, Joey Ciccolini
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Over the years, I’ve run my share of treadmills into the ground. Usually, it’s very obvious when they break down. They start to make some horrendous screeching and groaning noises that you know can’t be good. My latest treadmill to bite the dust was not so obvious. In fact, for the longest time, I didn’t even realize something was off. The motor began to ever-so-slightly run less efficiently. Looking back, I believe this began at least a year before I finally realized what was happening.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing about the AIDS epidemic for a chain of Brooklyn newspapers

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

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By making the comments part of the story
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