Christopher Lee Nutter

Christopher Lee Nutter (born May 2, 1970) is the author of The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block (HCI Press, May 2006), and co-author of Ignite the Genius Within (Penguin, March 2009).

Early career

Nutter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi in 1993. Nutter first achieved notoriety for an essay he wrote for Details magazine in 1994 about life inside the closet. He moved to New York shortly afterwards to become a trend writer for publications such as The Village Voice, Vibe, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and The Advocate. He also wrote the popular nightlife column for HX (magazine) in the late nineties, and was a regular on the Manhattan and Miami Beach gay party scene as a bartender, doorman, and party boy.

Metrosexual / Post-Straight

His next important piece was as the first writer to report on the influence of gay culture on straight men for the Village Voice in 2001 called "Post-Straight, How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys", predicting the Metrosexual trend which appeared two years later. In 2003, he starred in VH-1's Totally Gay! to discuss the cultural history behind this trend.

The Way Out

With The Way Out he began receiving increased attention from the mainstream media. He has been Called “the gay Dr. Phil” by Gay Web Monkey magazine, "a new voice in the great American debate about values" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and endorsed by GLAAD and Gary Zukav.

Ignite the Genius Within

In March, 2009 his new multi-media creativity workbook, Ignite The Genius Within, co-authored with noted EMDR therapist Dr. Christine Ranck, was published by Penguin/Dutton.

External links

• Official Website
• Official site for Ignite the Genius Within
• Nutter Media
• Christopher Lee Nutter at the Internet Movie Database

Articles by Nutter

• The Party's on the Best Sidewalks of New York
• Post-Straight:How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys
• Fronting for the Enemy:Gay Men Who Make Homophobic Rappers Look Good
• A Gay Community Grows in Harlem
• How the buzz machine prepares a club for takeoff: a step-by-step guide.
• Capoeira's secret battle plan for total gym domination
• My way out
• Author, Media Savant
• Think It Over
• Team Spirit
• Trauma King
• My Straight Little Brother
• Circling the Square

References

• A deepening challenge for America's gay men
• Like it deep?
• Coming Way Out
• Quitting Brokeback
• The Best of 2006 Books
• IN Between the Covers with Christopher Lee Nutter
• Christopher Nutter on The Way Out
• A Guide to Coming Out
• The Party's on the Best Sidewalks of New York
• OutOnTheNet Interview
• The Way Out Review
• Look In For A Way Out
• Complete Nutter
• Time Out New York quote from Nutter's essay on Sade for Michael Montlack's book, My Diva
• Publisher's Weekly quote from Nutter's essay on Sade for My Diva

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