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Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan pens guest column in The New York Times
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 11:44am by Seth Adam, GLAAD's Senior Manager of Communications
Photo by Jim Bowdoin
Widely acclaimed author and GLAAD Board Member Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan will take to the op-ed pages of The New York Times this month as the substitute for columnist David Brooks, with her first column, titled “This Astronomical recession,” debuting today.
Boylan now becomes the first transgender woman to serve as guest columnist for the Times – an achievement that falls in a long line of ‘firsts’ for the trailblazing advocate. Boylan’s memoir She’s Not There, published by Doubleday in 2003, was one of the first bestselling works by a transgender American, and she’s been a frequent guest on such programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Larry King Show and the Today Show among others.
Be sure to look out for Professor Boylan’s other columns in the Op-ed pages of The New York Times throughout August!