Sarah Pettit
Sarah Pettit (06 August 1966 – 22 January 2003) was an American journalist, LGBT activist, and editor. She was known for being the founding editor of Out Magazine alongside Michael Goff.[1]
Biography
Pettit was born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands[2] where her father worked as a banker for an international banking corporation. She was raised in Paris, London, and Bad Homburg, Germany.[3] She went to Phillips Exeter Academy and then earn a bachelor degree at Yale University, in Comparative Literature in French and German[4] in 1988. She died on January 22, 2003 in New York City, due complications with lymphoma diagnosed less than a year before.
Career
Pettit's journalism career began in 1989, when she got hired by Michelangelo Signorile to be the arts editor for the now-defunct OutWeek, a controversial weekly gay and lesbian magazine that stirred national debates for its tatics around gay rights activism and “outing” public figures[5].
In 1992, she joined Goff to create Out magazine, where she extended the magazine's cultural and political focus, attracting an unprecedented range of advertisers, like Calvin Klein and General Motors, that had not previously appeared in gay publications.[1]
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