Gabriel Arana is a writer-editor with 15 years of experience at progressive magazines and digital media outlets. He is a contributing editor at The American Prospect and was previously editor-in-chief of the Texas Observer, contributor at them., features editor at Mic, senior media editor at the Huffington Post, a contributor at Salon, and senior editor at The American Prospect. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Mic, Salon, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Slate, City & State, and The Daily Beast. He has been a guest on television and radio talk shows including MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, CNN's Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien, The Dr. Oz Show, PBS Newshour, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. Gabriel holds a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Yale University. He is a native of Nogales, Arizona and lives in New York City.
Why We Should Politicize the Orlando Massacre
The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools
Fifty Years After Stonewall, Many States Still Lack LGBTQ Protections
McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities
My Great Grandfather Was a Racist
A Queer Teacher in Edgewood Picked a Fight He Couldn't Win
Gay Men's Obsession with Masculinity Is Hurting Their Mental Health
PrEP: The Story of a Sexual Revolution
The Supreme Court's Ruling on Title VII Is Bigger Than Marriage Equality
The Complicated Past and Promising Future of Queer Studies
White, Gay Men Are Hindering Our Progress As a Queer Community
Behind the Trump Administration's Campaign to Erase Queers from the Census
"Sesame Street," Brought To You By The Letters "H," "B," & "O"
A Mental-Health Epidemic In The Newsroom
Gawker's Outing Of Condé Nast's CFO Is Gay-Shaming, Not Journalism
Diane Sawyer Sets A New Bar For Reporting On Transgender Issues
Does the Civil Rights Act Protect Gay Employees?
The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media
The Immigration Enforcement Trap
The Citizens United of the Culture Wars
What If Obama Didn't Mention Ebola Until 2017?
Gay Marriage Was Never 'Inevitable'
Campbell Brown's Transparency Problem
All Hail the 'Deporter-in-Chief'
Notes on a Suffix for 'Scandal'
Creaky Voice: Yet Another Example of Young Women's Linguistic Ingenuity
The Brief Death and Miraculous Resurrection of the Texas Observer
Twilight of the Gay-Marriage Movement
Higher Ed's Indentured Servants
After de Blasio, will NYC's Mental Health Thrive?
On Newsroom Diversity, Decades of Failure
Journalists Aren't As Tied By NDAs As They Think
The Truth About Gay Men and Pedophilia
2017 Deadline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Minority Focus (as editor)
2017 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism, Multimedia (as editor)
2017 NLGJA Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism from NLGJA (as editor)
2014 NLGJA Feature Writing Award, First Place (as writer)
2012 The Media Consortium Impact Award (as writer)
2010 GLAAD Media Award, Best Magazine Article (as writer)
