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==Birth - Death== | ==Birth - Death== | ||
| − | 1944 - | + | 1944 - 2022 |
==Occupation== | ==Occupation== | ||
| − | + | Journalist | |
| − | == | + | ==Description== |
| + | Award-winning, though controversial, journalist and social commentator. Contributor to the gay magazine 'The Body Politic'. Subject of obscenity charges from a controversial article 'Men Loving Boys Loving Men' (1977), for which he was acquitted on the grounds of free speech. Controversy also followed his revelation that he often was a prostitute while teaching journalism at Ryerson University, though following investigations found the media coverage scurrilous. Author of his autobiography 'Immoral, Indecent & Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical' (2022). Recipient of 13 magazine writing awards over his career. | ||
| + | ==See Also== | ||
| − | == | + | * [[Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2022]] |
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| + | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
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| + | * https://geraldhannon.com/ | ||
| + | * https://muckrack.com/gerald-hannon/articles | ||
| + | * https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-gifted-magazine-writer-gerald-hannon-was-no-stranger-to-controversy/ | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:53, 23 January 2023
Country
Canada
Birth - Death
1944 - 2022
Occupation
Journalist
Description
Award-winning, though controversial, journalist and social commentator. Contributor to the gay magazine 'The Body Politic'. Subject of obscenity charges from a controversial article 'Men Loving Boys Loving Men' (1977), for which he was acquitted on the grounds of free speech. Controversy also followed his revelation that he often was a prostitute while teaching journalism at Ryerson University, though following investigations found the media coverage scurrilous. Author of his autobiography 'Immoral, Indecent & Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical' (2022). Recipient of 13 magazine writing awards over his career.
