William Keiser (born 1996) is an American screenwriter and podcast host. [1] [2] His work has been published in the Los Angeles Times [3] and other publications [4] and concerns youth and social hierarchy in LGBTQ communities. [5]
Keiser was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and grew up boating with his parents. He attended Princeton University. [6]
In 2022, Keiser created popular, a three-part narrative podcast about hierarchies in LGBTQ Washington, DC communities, with The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. [7] The podcast features LGBTQ writers Andrew Holleran and Brandan Robertson and discusses stratification and negotiations of consent in the city's queer nightlife and sports leagues. [8] [1] [9]
In 2023, Keiser published two op-eds in the LA Times: one about a date on which he was body-shamed [3] and one about a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which was run nationally in newspapers through the Tribune Content Agency. [10] [11]
Keiser was selected as a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Artist Fellow in Screenwriting in 2024, studying under Rasheed Newson. [2] [12] [13]