Sarah Warn

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Sarah Warn
BornUnited States
OccupationWriter, editor
GenreEntertainment, non-fiction
Literary movementLGBT, online

Sarah Warn is an American writer and the former editor of entertainment website AfterEllen.com.

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Biography

Warn graduated from Annie Wright School in Tacoma in 1992. She then attended Wellesley College in 1996 with a degree in women's studies, and received a master's degree in theological studies from Harvard University in 1998. [1] She spent eight years in online marketing [2] before selling her gay and lesbian entertainment websites AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com to Logo in 2006. [3] Warn stepped down as the Editor in Chief of AfterEllen.com, with Karman Kregloe stepping into the role in 2009. [4] Warn is currently the Vice President of Growth at Seattle-based immigration startup Boundless Immigration. [5]

Warn's extensive written work on lesbian and bisexual women in entertainment has been included or cited in numerous magazines, including Velvetpark , Curve [6] and Lesbian News; in newspapers like USA Today , [7] Los Angeles Times , and Emmy Magazine; and in books like BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television, Bisexual Women: Friendship & Social Organization, and News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity. [8] Warn also wrote the introduction to the Reading the 'L' Word, a collection of essays by academics and journalists about the Showtime drama The L Word . [9]

In November 2006, Warn was honored as one of the year's "10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz" by non-profit organization Power Up. [10] In December 2006, she appeared on a panel with other notable LGBT actors and activists on Logo's Queer Year 2006 TV special. [11] She was one of four co-hosts on the first season of the online lesbian talk show She Said What? [12]

Warn currently co-hosts the entertainment news video blogs She Made Me Watch This [13] and Who Thought THAT Was A Good Idea? with her partner Lori Grant, which runs weekly on AfterEllen.com. [14] [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "All hail the pioneer, Sarah Warn", LesbiaNation.com, March 9, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Erosion Media Execs"
  3. ↑ "MTVN's Logo Acquires Three LGBT Sites", paidContent.org, June 8, 2006.
  4. ↑ "365gay Joins Logo", 365gay.com, June 8, 2006
  5. ↑ "Tech Moves: AWS names first head of space policy; WeWork Labs leader joins Alexa Fund; Moz co-founder leaves board". GeekWire. September 16, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  6. ↑ "TV’s Top 10 “Lesbian” Crime-Fighter Shows" Curve Magazine
  7. ↑ "It's In to be Out These Days", USA Today, June 1, 2003
  8. ↑ "Books on Amazon.com that reference articles by Sarah Warn"
  9. ↑ "Reading the L Word", March 30, 2006.
  10. ↑ "10 Amazing Gay Women in Hollywood in 2006", Planetout.com, 2006.
  11. ↑ 2006: The Queer Year, Logoonline.com December 2006.
  12. ↑ "A Show of Their Own" SouthernVoice.com, January 26, 2006
  13. ↑ "She Made Me Watch This!"
  14. ↑ "Who Thought THAT Was A Good Idea?"
  15. ↑ "One Word for 'L' Word: Logo" The Hollywood Reporter, September 21, 2007
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