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Steven Petrow’s best seller The Essential Book of Gay Manners and Etiquette (HarperCollins, 1995) remains the most complete and authoritative guide to coming out, the rules of courtship, planning a same-sex commitment ceremony, bringing baby on board, confronting homophobia, saying good-bye to a dying friend, and much more.

Coming soon: The Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners: LGBT advice for dating, sex, coming out, marriage and all the rest (Workman). According to Petrow, “The new book combines the authority and scope of Emily Post with the wit and humor of Miss Manners. It’s for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people (and those who aren't quite sure), as well as straight folks. This is a more fluid, inclusive book to match our more fluid, inclusive times.” Petrow is widely sought after by the media as a manners expert and writes regularly for a number of national publications, including the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Salon, Out.com, and The Advocate.

On this page, you’ll find articles written by Petrow as well as broadcast and print interviews about his work.

Press Coverage
The New York Times
Gay Couples Confront Holiday Stress
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/21/garden/gay-couples-confront-holiday-stress.html?scp=4&sq=Steven%20Petrow&st=cse

Stationery That Rattles Etiquette
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/29/garden/stationery-that-rattles-etiquette.html?scp=1&sq=Steven%20Petrow&st=cse

Etiquette: Is It Back?
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/nyregion/etiquette-is-it-back.html?scp=6&sq=Steven%20Petrow&st=cse


North Carolina Public Radio (NPR affiliate)
NC Gay Pride 2009
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0923a09.mp3/view

Meet Steven Petrow
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0226a.mp3/view

Same Sex Marriage and North Carolina
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/SOT052308ab.mp3/view

N.C. Pride
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0928a07.mp3/view


KQED (PBS affiliate)
Petrow made more than a dozen appearances on the award-winning news program, “This Week in Northern California.”
http://thisweek.kqed.org/guests/47/index.html


The Seattle Times
Amazon Denies It Censored Rankings
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009034801_amazon14.html


San Francisco Chronicle
PlanetOut Expands Its Universe
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/07/BU89346.DTL


Daily News (NY)
MIKE SLIPS UP ON GAY NUPS Voices support, then objects
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/03/06/2004-03-06_mike_slips_up_on_gay_nups_vo.html


The Advocate
Lesbian Reporters Removed from Marriage Beat After Marrying Each Other
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid4741.asp


Q-Notes, Interview, December 12
Merry Manners: Journalist, author Steven Petrow offers LGBT advice for the holiday season, prepares for new etiquette book
http://goqnotes.com/4525/merry-manners/


Out Front Colorado, Feature, December 30
Steven Petrow: essential etiquette for everyone
http://www.outfrontcolorado.com/features.php?itemid=580


TAN Radio Network, "As I Am", Live, December 17
Steven Petrow— Gay Manners
http://www.asiam.fm/Archive/December17-09.htm


Steven's Writing

Salon
The Man in the Blue Coat
http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/04/07/testicular/index.html


Daily Beast
First in the Fight Against AIDS: A Tribute to Edward M. Kennedy
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-26/first-in-the-fight-against-aids/


Huffington Post
Joe Biden’s Tears
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-petrow/joe-bidens-tears-remember_b_133902.html


Huffington Post
“That’s So Gay” Is Not So Funny
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-petrow/thats-so-gay-is-not-so-fu_b_165109.html


Huffington Post
Remembering the Lessons of Harvey Milk
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-petrow/remembering-the-lessons-o_b_148658.html


Huffington Post
Where Did These Kids Come From?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-petrow/queeries-where-did-these_b_178776.html


The Advocate
Outing Closeted Legislators
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid84443.asp


The Independent Weekly
Julia Boseman won't back down
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A402084


The Independent Weekly
How to Wrap Your Head Around the Pregnant Man
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A257157


The Independent Weekly
They Shoot Gays, Don’t They?
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A260096




Media Contact Information
For interviews with Steven Petrow or further information about his books or other work, please contact:

Karen Wadsworth
Media Masters Publicity
781-293-0548



Ron Longe
Media Masters Publicity
212-866-2906



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Updated 01.26.2010


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