Bill Konigsberg Meet & Greet

Sunday, October 5:  4-5pm in LGBTQ Center
Informal meet and greet with openly gay sports writer, and author of the new novel Out of the Pocket - about a high school football player who is gay

Bill Konigsberg is an award-winning sports journalist, who has written for television, newspapers, wire services, and the internet.  As a sports writer and editor for the Associated Press from 2005-08, he covered the New York Mets, and his weekly fantasy baseball column appeared across the country, from the New York Daily News to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  In May of 2001, while working as an assistant editor at ESPN.come, he came out on the front page of the website in an article entitled Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays.  That article won him a GLAAD Media Award the following year.  Since then, he has spoken at venues across the country about what it is like to be one of the few openly gay people in sports media.  He has written for ESPN.com, the New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Denver Post, and North Jersey Herald and News.  His work has also appeared in Out Magazine and Outsports.com.  His story was included as a chapter in the book Jocks 2: Coming Out to Play, by Dan Woog. 

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