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

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Biography

Warn graduated from

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in Tacoma in 1992. She then attended

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial ...

in 1996 with a degree in women's studies, and received a master's degree in theological studies from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1998. She spent eight years in online marketing before selling her

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and

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entertainment websites AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com to Logo in 2006. Warn stepped down as the Editor in Chief of AfterEllen.com, with Karman Kregloe stepping into the role in 2009. Warn is currently the Vice President of Growth at Seattle-based immigration startup Boundless Immigration. Warn's extensive written work on lesbian and

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women in entertainment has been included or cited in numerous magazines, including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Lesbian News''; in newspapers like ''

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'', ''

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'', 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''. Warn also wrote the introduction to the ''Reading the 'L' Word'', a collection of essays by academics and journalists about the Showtime drama ''

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''. In November 2006, Warn was honored as one of the year's "10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz" by non-profit organization

Power Up POWER UP (the "Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up") is an American non-profit organization and film production company with the stated mission "to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment ...

. In December 2006, she appeared on a panel with other notable LGBT actors and activists on Logo's Queer Year 2006 TV special. She was one of four co-hosts on the first season of the online lesbian talk show ''She Said What?'' Warn currently co-hosts the entertainment news video blogs ''She Made Me Watch This'' and ''Who Thought THAT Was A Good Idea?'' with her partner Lori Grant, which runs weekly on AfterEllen.com."One Word for 'L' Word: Logo"
The Hollywood Reporter, September 21, 2007

References

External links

AfterEllen.comAfterElton.com
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