Samantha Leigh Allen

Samantha Leigh Allen is an American journalist and author. Allen worked as a senior reporter for The Daily Beast and now works as a freelance journalist. In 2019 she published the biography Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States.

Early life and education

Allen was born in California and grew up in New Jersey.[1] She was raised in a conservative, Mormon household.[2][3] As a young adult she served as a Mormon missionary.[4] She officially left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 2008 and transferred from Brigham Young University to Rutgers University later that year.[2][5] She came out as a transgender woman in 2012.[6][7]

She has a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University.[8][9] She was a recipient of a George W. Woodruff Felloswhip while at Emory.[10] In 2013 she received the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington.[11] In 2014 she was a recipient of the Unsung Heroine Award from the Center for Women at Emory as well as a Transgender Advocate of the Year Award from Emory's Office of LGBT Life.[12]

Career

Allen covered LGBTQ stories as a senior reporter for The Daily Beast and worked as a staff writer for Fusion TV's Sex + Life vertical.[11][13] She has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Out, CNN, and Crosscut.com.[12] Allen has also written for LGBTQ media outlets including Them and Logo TV's NewNowNext as a freelance writer.[14][15] She also writes a travel newsletter called Get Lost on Substack and co-hosts a podcast about the WNBA called Double W with Laurel Powell.[14]

In 2018 she received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article for her article on the cultural erasure of bisexual men. In 2019 she was nominated for a GLAAD Award her piece on non-binary inclusion in the workplace.[12] In 2018 Allen published Love & Estrogen with Amazon Original Stories, which is a biographical queer romantic comedy about meeting her wife at the Kinsey Institute.[12]

In 2019 she published the biography Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States, which won the Judy Turner Prize for Community Service at the Decatur Books Festival.[12][16] Her book focuses on LGBTQ communities in Utah, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi.[14][17][18][19]

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References
  1. "Real Queer America author Samantha Allen on why Atlanta is the best city in the country for the LGBTQ community". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  2. "Samantha Allen- Real Queer America — Love Les". Loveles.co. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
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  4. "The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events: Samantha Allen discusses Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States on Apple Podcasts". Podcasts.apple.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
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  7. Emory Medicine Magazine Fall 2018. "Seen & Heard". News.emory.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  8. "Samantha Allen". Mic.com. 1994-09-22. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  9. "Taking the Leap: A Conversation with Samantha Leigh Allen". Popqt.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  10. "Samantha Allen - LA Times Festival of Books 2019". Latimesfestivalofbooks2019.sched.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  11. "Samantha Allen | Fusion". Fusion.tv. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  12. "Samantha Leigh Allen". Samantha Leigh Allen. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  13. Samantha Allen@SLAwrites. "Samantha Allen". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  14. Daniel Bogan (2019-12-26). "Uses This / Samantha Allen". Usesthis.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  15. "Samantha Allen Latest Articles | them". Them.us. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  16. McIlvain, Ryan (2019-06-20). ""Progress Is Happening and It's Happening Everywhere": A Conversation with Samantha Allen – BLARB". Blog.lareviewofbooks.org. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  17. "Writer finds LGBT support, inclusion in red states". Msnbc.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  18. "The journalist telling the complicated, hopeful truth about LGBTQ life in red states - Columbia Journalism Review". Cjr.org. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  19. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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