Sarah Warn is an American writer and the former editor of entertainment website
AfterEllen.com
''AfterEllen'' is an American culture website founded in 2002, with a focus on entertainment, interviews, reviews, and news of interest to the lesbian and bisexual women's community. The site covers pop culture and lifestyle issues from a feminis ...
.
Biography
Warn graduated from
Annie Wright School in Tacoma in 1992. She then attended
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...
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 university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
in 1998. She spent eight years in online marketing before selling her
gay and
lesbian
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entertainment websites AfterEllen.com and
AfterElton.com to
Logo
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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
bisexual
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...
women in entertainment has been included or cited in numerous magazines, including ''
Velvetpark'', ''
Curve
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Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that ...
'' and ''Lesbian News''; in newspapers like ''
USA Today
''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headq ...
'', ''
Los Angeles Times
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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 ''
The L Word
''The L Word'' is a television drama series that aired on Showtime in the United States from 2004 to 2009. The series follows the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual women who live in West Hollywood, California. The premise originated wit ...
''.
In November 2006, Warn was honored as one of the year's "10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz" by non-profit organization
Power Up. In December 2006, she appeared on a panel with other notable LGBT actors and activists on
Logo
A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name that it represents, as in ...
'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.com
AfterElton.com
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American online publication editors
American non-fiction writers
Harvard Divinity School alumni
American lesbian writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers