[CW:MONTHLY] Member in the Spotlight

For years fellow NLGJA member Steven Petrow has been the go-to-guy for all LGBT etiquette questions. Through his acclaimed book The Essential Book of Gay Manners and Etiquette; a popular column in Genre magazine; frequent articles on The Huffington Post, OUT.com, and in The Advocate (and in more than two dozen LGBT newspapers in the U.S., Canada and the U.K); as well numerous interviews on radio and television, he has been dispensing candid advice with a dollop of his trademark humor to gays and straights alike. Readers say Petrow combines Emily Post’s practical and encyclopedic approach with the voice—and wit—of Miss Manners.

On October 12, to coincide with National Coming Out Week, Petrow launched a new Web site Steven Petrow’s Gay and Lesbian Manners Online (http://www.gayandlesbianmanners.com/) that will answer everyone’s – gay or straight -- LGBT questions on dating, sex, marriage, coming out, and all the rest.

"LGBT people are faced with many new situations—some difficult and uncomfortable, others joyous and exciting—that require guidance,” says Petrow. “That’s what motivated me to create this Web site, where both gays and straights can email me their LGBT etiquette dilemmas, which I like to call “Queeries.” I’ll answer as many as I can on the site and in my columns.”

The entire LGBT community (as well as the straight people in their lives) will find Steven Petrow’s unique brand of advice refreshing and invaluable as they tackle all of the modern-day dilemmas.