Bio

Dwayne Steward is a nationally recognized blogger, freelance writer/editor, inspirational speaker and human-rights activist. He runs the popular LGBT news blog Queer-Corner.com and is co-host of Queer Minded, an online radio show on TalktainmentRadio.com. He also was published in the New York Times Bestseller “It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying and Creating a Life Worth Living” edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller. A trained journalist with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, he’s written for several publications, including The News Journal (Wilmington, Del.), The Poynter Institute and Newsday. He’s also the former Associate Producer and Theater Critic for Metromix.com. He’s made a name for himself in the Midwest as a prominent voice in the theater community, which he’s parlayed into his involvement as a consultant/critic for the Theatre Roundtable of Central Ohio. As a founding member of SHADES, he helped pave the way of acceptance and support for gay people of color while attending Ohio University. And today he continues to fight for the cause by speaking about the devastating effects of anti-gay bullying at high schools and universities around the country.  He also works full-time as the HIV Testing Coordinator for the AIDS Resource Center Ohio’s Greater Columbus Mpowerment Center, an organization dedicated to reducing new HIV infections in the same-gender-loving black and Latino male community.