Out Spotlight

Here it is! I couldn't miss doing a post - despite Google.

So from yesterday's comment to it's own post.  (Thanks to everyone behind the scenes who helped make this possible!!!)

Today’s Out Spotlight is a political journalist, social activist and commentator. Today’s Out Spotlight is Jonathan Capehart.

Jonathan Capehart, was born July 2, 1968 and grew up in New Jersey, attending Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, and later graduating from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1990.

The Today show was Capehart’s dream, Bryant Gumbel his idol. Ten-year-old Jonathan Capehart absolutely lit up the minute the NBC morning-show banter began. At first he watched to spot his uncle, an electrician, whom Capehart recalls seeing entering the cohosts’ camera shot during a broadcast on the plaza.

As a noted wunderkind of his day, Capehart quickly became a key contributor to a New York Daily News editorial staff from 1993-2000 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Best Editorial Writing for a series of editorials about Harlem's Apollo Theater. Subsequent to his high profile stint he became a National Affairs Columnist for Bloomberg News from 2000-2001 and left to work as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg during his first successful campaign for Mayor of New York City. Later, he returned to the Daily News as deputy editor of the editorial page from 2002-2005 and has since become a sought after television news commentator and interviewer, and contributor to MSNBC "Way Too Early," “Morning Joe,” "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and a daily presence on MSNBC dayside). His commentary is often sought at the Reporters Roundtable on ABC News's “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and he has been a substitute host on “The Brian Lehrer Show” and “The Leonard Lopate Show” on WNYC. He is also a much respected Opinion writer for the Washington Post.

A long time gay activist, and advocate for marriage equality, Capehart’s early association and understanding of the political process played a key role in the successful campaign to legalize gay marriage in New York state. He is also a former officer of a former officer of the National Lesbian and Gay Journlists Association and has been together with his partner for over ten years, the noted architect, Giuseppe Lignano, an Italian-born architect and co-founder of the architectural design studio LOT-EK.