Life and Work
Journalist Steven Petrow is the author of five books and a widely syndicated columnist, as well as one of the founding executives of Waterfront Media (now Everyday Health). Petrow writes frequently on health issues and is considered one of America’s foremost authorities on etiquette and manners. A past president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, Petrow has carved out a niche in the LGBT arena, with books and columns on gay manners, HIV/AIDS, and an e-book on coming out.
Most recently, Petrow is the author of Steven Petrow's Complete Gay and Lesbian Manners, the authoritative LGBT volume published by Workman. He’s currently the Huffington Post’s manners columnist. Petrow’s monthly column, “Queeries,” is syndicated in more than two-dozen national newspapers and Web sites. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Real Simple, and Time.com; he has also been seen and heard on CNN and NPR. His next book tackles the thorny questions of Digital Manners for the 21st century.
An award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Petrow started his career at The Wall Street Journal, and has since held senior editorial positions at Life Magazine, HotWired (Wired Magazine), Longevity Magazine (General Media), and Everyday Health (Everyday Health, Inc.). Petrow has published work in the Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, the Advocate, Yahoo! Shine and the Daily Beast. He is also the former president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
Petrow’s previous books include Dancing Against the Darkness (Macmillan, 1990); When Someone You Know Has AIDS (Crown, 1993); The HIV Drug Book (Pocket, 1995); and The Lost Hamptons (Arcadia, 2004). His next full-length book is Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners: LGBT Advice for Dating, Sex, Coming Out, Marriage and All the Rest to be published by Workman Publishing in Spring 2011. In 2009, he launched the Web site www.gayandlesbianmanners.com, which offers his unique brand of advice on manners questions the LGBT community faces on a daily basis. He holds a Bachelors degree from Duke University, an MA and C.Phil from the University of California, Berkeley.
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