Derek Hartley is an author, emcee and national radio host available to speak on the topic of LGBT people, images and careers in media. Over the past fifteen years, he has worked in all aspects of modern media spanning print, online, film, television and radio.

Radio
• Co-host of the popular Sirius XM radio show “Derek and Romaine” with Romaine Patterson on the OutQ Channel since April 2003, reaching of approximately 35 million listeners in the US and Canada.
• “Derek and Romaine” won a 2009 GLAAD Award for Special Achievement.

Online
• As the Director of Content Programming at PlanetOut in the 1990s, his work was part of the case study that won a medal for Innovation in Information Technology from the ComputerWorld/Smithsonian Awards presented by the Smithsonian Institution.
• Creator of the video podcast “The So Real Life” available for download on iTunes.

Print
• Internationally syndicated columnist in the LGBT market reaching approximately one million readers worldwide in the 1990s.
• Author of Colonnade: A Life In Columns (Spacuna Publishing, October 2009)

In addition to his career in LGBT media, Derek has also worked in film with SONY Pictures Entertainment, television with Viacom, and online with Seventeen.com and Tiger Beat. He is also a sought after public speaker and host, having appeared at more than fifty events across the U.S. in the last six years alone. With his far-reaching knowledge in the world of media, Derek is available to talk with authority on all subjects of editorial content, marketing and career opportunities for LGBT people in mainstream media, as well as specifically in LGBT media.

Topics Include:
• What careers are available in media for LGBT people
• How mainstream media is used to reach niche markets
• Tailoring content to target specific demographics
• Effective marketing strategies in the evolving world of media