Career
In 1990, Anderson-Minshall became the editor of the Crescent City Star, a weekly LGBT newspaper in New Orleans. [9] In 1993, she was named editor at On Our Backs , the lesbian erotic magazine founded by Nan Kinney and Debbie Sundahl. A year later, she and fellow On Our Backs employees left the magazine and founded their own publication, the lesbian entertainment magazine Girlfriends. [9] In 1999, she founded the short-lived feminist's lifestyle magazine, Alice. [10]
Switching to freelance, Anderson-Minshall wrote for various magazines including Bust , Utne Reader and Seventeen. In 2004, she became an editor at Curve magazine, later rising to editor-in-chief. [11] Along the way, she gained attention for several celebrity interviews in which the subject came out as lesbian or bisexual. Among them: Dana Plato, [12] Angelina Jolie, [13] and singer Sinéad O'Connor [14] came out as lesbian or bisexual. Later in life, O'Connor said she didn't "believe in labels of any kind." [15]
After holding various editor positions at Pride's Plus and sister publication The Advocate , and helping launch its Black gay lifestyle magazine Chill, Anderson-Minshall was named the company's first female CEO in 2020. The company added oversight of Out magazine and the website Pride.com to her portfolio. [16]
Anderson-Minshall has also authored or edited several books. She co-edited the anthology of LGBTQ youth writing, Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Race and Sexuality (2004), and her autobiographical essays have appeared in several other anthologies. Beginning in 2007, she and her husband, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, collaborated on the Blind Eye Mystery series (Blind Curves, Blind Leap and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Blind Faith), following the cases of a San Francisco-based Japanese lesbian detective, through Bold Strokes Books. Her first solo fiction, Punishment with Kisses, a mystery involving the murder of a promiscuous lesbian, was released in 2009 by the same publisher. [17]
Her 2014 memoir, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders, co-authored with her husband Jacob, recounts how the two's relationship survived the transition from lesbian couple to husband and wife. [18] In 2015, the Golden Crown Literary Society, which celebrates "excellence in sapphic and women-loving-women" stories, honored the couple with a Goldie award in the creative non-fiction category, making Jacob Anderson-Minshall the first openly transgender author to win an award from the organization. [19] [20]
Anderson-Minshall's advocacy has extended to raising awareness of various issues related to HIV and AIDS, including appearing in a 2015 segment of Larry King Now to bring attention to the high rate of HIV among transgender women. [21] The same year, she oversaw the rebranding of Pride Media's HIV Plus magazine to simply Plus, with the new tagline "Because you're more than your status". [22]
In August 2025, Anderson-Minshall was the first woman to be named Executive Director of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, a group of more than 550 journalists that presents the Dorian Awards for excellence in mainstream and LGBTQ-themed film, TV, and Broadway/Off-Broadway content. [23]
