The Radio Years
Several months after leaving Out, Signorile joined The Advocate once again, in December 1998, as a columnist and editor-at-large; his first article was a cover piece taking on the notion of a "post-gay' society as espoused by Out editor Collard. (Within a year after Collard took the post and six months after Signorile left Out, Collard left Out amid reports of a drop in circulation and negative response of a focus group to the magazine.) In 2000, Signorile left the Advocate again, and became a columnnist for global Internet site Gay.com, which had just merged with the pioneering LGBT site PlanetOut.com. Signorile traveled around the U.S. and around the world, writing online columns. He covered the controversy surrounding the Millennium March Washington for LGBT Rights, which divided many in the community regarding its time and purpose and at which a theft occurred at the festival. Signorile reported from Australia and New Zealand, where his partner had taken a position as a professor, and reported on World Pride in Rome in 2000, which activists butted heads with the Vatican, which tried to get the event canceled. During that time Signorile also pioneered Internet radio, webcasting a weekly show on GAYBC.com beginning in 2000, covering the global LGBT community. In an interview, he has described a machine called a "vector" that he would plug into a phone outlet and which allowed him to webcast live via Gaybc's studios in Seattle.(Media Bistro Q & A with Signorile 2002)
Signorile and much of his work over the years were featured prominently in Outrage (2009 film), directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick and which focused on closeted antigay politicians, making the a case for why media should report on their sexual orientation.
He now hosts a daily talk show on SiriusXM satellite radio on the OutQ channel (channel 108) from 2-6 ET. The Friday show is re-broadcast on Saturdays from 8PM until midnight EST on SiriusXM Left, channel 127.
Signorile was inducted in the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's LGBT Journalist Hall of Fame in August 2011 at the group's annual convention in Philadelphia.
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