Neil Miller (journalist)

Neil Miller (* 1945 in Kingston , New York ) is an American author and journalist .

Life

Miller was born in Kingston, New York. He attended Kingston High School and Brown University . From 1975 to 1978 he was news editor for the LGBT newspaper Gay Community News , the first weekly newspaper for lesbians and gays in the USA. He worked as a journalist for the Boston Phoenix in the early 1980s .

Miller also published several books. In 1989 he published the book In Search of Gay America , in which he examined the life of homosexual people outside of the US metropolitan areas. In this book he discussed the life of a gay mayor in a small town in Missouri , a gay farmer in Minnesota and a lesbian miner in a coal mine in West Virginia and a gay Indian in South Dakota . The book won the 1991 Lambda Literary Award and was honored by the American Library Association . Miller published his second book Out in the World in 1992. In this book, Miller looked at homosexual life in twelve countries, including South Africa, Egypt, Thailand, Japan, Australia and Denmark. In 1995 Miller published his third book Out of the Past . The subject of the book is the history of LGBT people , starting from 1869. The book was published in 2006 in a revised second edition.

Miller's interest in LGBT history led him to write his next book Sex-Crime Panic in 2002 . In this book, Miller describes the arrest of 20 gay men in Sioux City , Iowa during the McCarthy era . The arrest came after the unsolved case of the brutal murder of two young children. Although the men were never linked to the crime in any way, they were labeled "sexual psychopaths" and locked up in the closed ward of a state mental health institution until they were considered "cured". The book received the Lambda Literary Award in 2002 and the Randy Shilts Award from Publishing Triangle . The story had been completely unknown to the public until it was published by Miller, who used detective work to track down those involved and victims.

In 2008 Miller published his fifth book Kartchner Caverns . In this book, Miller reports on two young men who discovered an astonishing system of stalactite caves in southern Arizona in 1974 and traces their 25-year-old efforts to save the caves from environmental damage. The Kartchner Caverns are now a state park in the state of Arizona . This book received the 2008 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association .

In addition, Miller has worked as a freelance writer in recent years and has published articles in Boston Globe Magazine (the Sunday supplement of the Boston Globe ), the Los Angeles Times , the Cleveland Plain Dealer , CommonWealth Magazine , the Unitarian-Universalist World and in the LGBT The Advocate and Out magazines . He teaches journalism at Tufts University in Medford , Massachusetts .

Works by Miller (selection)

• In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change , 1989
• Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok , 1992
• Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present , 1995; New edition 2006
• Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s , 2002
• Kartchner Caverns: How Two Cavers Discovered and Saved One of the Wonders of the Natural World , 2008

Individual evidence

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