‘Detroit News’ Columnist Was A Pioneer In LGBTQ+ Journalism.
Deb Price, a trailblazing lesbian journalist introduced the lives of the queer community to multitudes of readers. (Detroit News)
“Deb Price, a trailblazing former Detroit News journalist who in 1992 started writing a column about gay issues for the newspaper, has died. She was 62.
Her Nov. 20 death after a hospitalization in Hong Kong, where she had been based, followed nine years coping with an autoimmune lung disease, said her wife, Joyce Murdoch.”
Pioneering LBGTQ journalists paved the way for so many people and were able to introduce the lives of sexual minorities to a public that knew very little them. These trailblazing efforts eventually led to monumental changes in the way our society thinks about the overall acceptance and rights of queer citizens. Today, a majority of Americans agree with the legality of gay marriage and employment protections for LGBTQ people, all of which would not be possible without people like Deb Price. Yay for LGBTQ+ journalist.
