Joseph Fenity is President of the Los Angeles Chapter of The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.
The Association of LGBTQ Journalists was founded as NLGJA in the spring of 1990.
Joseph Fenity was introduced to NLGJA in 2006 through OUT@NBCUniversal, NBC’s LGBT employee alliance group. Over the years, Fenity has served as an active NLGJA member in both the New York and Los Angeles chapters. In 2017, he became a Los Angeles chapter officer, and was named co-president the following year.
Fenity first began his professional career in journalism at the age of 17 as morning news anchor at KTSW-FM near Austin, Texas. Around that same time, he added filmmaker to his resume when he directed and produced the award-winning September 11th documentary Project NYC. A decade later, his hometown honored him with Joseph Fenity Day in recognition of his achievements in television and radio news.
By the mid-2000s, long before podcasting was a thing, Fenity was doing it. The San Francisco Bay Guardian honored his early podcast interview series with a “Best of the Bay” award and lauded him a "podcast pioneer."
More recently, Fenity’s voice has been heard nationally as an on-air reporter for OutQ on SiriusXM Satellite Radio in New York. His written works have been published in a variety of print outlets, including Out and Rolling Stone magazines.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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