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Brody Levesque is a veteran journalist and is Executive Producer of
Rated LGBTQ Radio and a contributing editor for New York City-basedUnclosetedMedia.Brody
served most recently as the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Bladeduring which time the publication was awarded the GLAAD BarbaraGittings award for excellence in journalism and a Los Angeles PressClub award for the Blade’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.Levesque
has been involved in queer media since 2008 as a foundingcorrespondentserving as the Washington Bureau Chief for LGBTQ Nation, aweb-only based magazine covering politics, culture, and commentary.Levesque has also written for other queer news outlets including Pink
News UK, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Washington Blade, TheHuffingtonPost,Bay Area Reporter, Hot Spots Magazine, Gay Star News UK, GeorgiaVoice, and has contributed to The SydneyStarObserver, TowleroadGay News, Joe.My.Godamongothers.A
long time wire service politicalreporter,Levesque commenced his over four decades long career with UPI in 1981and also worked for Reutersand AgenceFrance-Presse.In
addition to covering The White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon andthe federal government in Washington D.C., he also has been assignedoverseas covering the European Union and the Russian Federation.In
addition to his work as a journalist Levesque is a historian and in2015 published his first book;TheSunshine Special: FDR's 1939 Lincoln K Series Presidential Limousineinassociation with the Benson Ford Research Centre at the Henry FordMuseum in Dearborn, Michigan.The book is a historical account of
the early days of U.S. presidential automotive transportation and thehistory of the first custom built presidential state-car, earmarkedfor use by a sitting president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.