Michael Rogers, Editor/Publisher

Michael Rogers is the publisher and editor of Page One News Media and is the author of blogACTIVE -- the web site that reports on hypocrites in the government who work against the interests of the gay and lesbian community. Rogers also maintains a news and information website, PageOneQ and runs the organization Proud of Who We Are.

Rogers's work exposing hypocrites in positions of political power has earned him national recognition. Prior to his current work, he was a fundraiser and non-profit executive for a variety of progressive causes.

His work was recently recognized when Rogers was chosent to receive The Blog Hero Award from the Bloggers Political Action Committee, BlogPAC.

Rogers'professional career began on the staff of a capital campaign of a four-station public broadcasting association. Rogers then served as the first Development Coordinator at New York's Hetrick-Martin Institute and Harvey Milk School, a social service agency and high school for lesbian and gay adolescents. Rogers managed the development and fundraising programs at the Funding Exchange, a national network of fifteen community-based foundations supporting social change.

In 1996, Rogers moved to Washington DC to become Director of Development at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the nation's oldest lesbian and gay civil rights organization. In addition to his work at the Task Force, Rogers directed marketing, fundraising and corporate sponsorship for Gala Choruses Festival 2000, an eight-day convention of 5,500 singers, representing over 200 lesbian and gay choruses from around the world.

Rogers also served on the staff of Greenpeace, the international environmental action organization as the Senior Manager of Major Gifts.

Concurrent with his career positions, Rogers has been an activist since the mid-1980's when he was involved in campaigns supporting divestiture from South Africa as a tactic to help bring about the end of Apartheid. Following relocation to New York City, Rogers was an active member of a number of community and political organizations.

Rogers has been appeared on CNN's NewsNight, Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, National Public Radio, and on numerous other television and radio programs. Rogers' work has been reported on in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune; he was profiled in GQ Magazine. Rogers was named as one of Genre Magazine's Men We Love.