About the Author

Antoine B. Craigwell

As a contributing writer for Out In Jersey magazine and The Bilerico Project, Antoine reported for FORTUNE Small Business magazine, the Villager Newspapers in Northeastern Connecticut, The Bronx Times Reporter and The Bronx Times. He has written for The New York Amsterdam News, was the assistant editor with The Network Journal, a contributor to mainstreet.com, and a senior correspondent and editor with GBMNews.com.

In 2008, for his reporting which led to a change in New York City public policy he earned two awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ). Antoine graduated from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY) with a degree in journalism and psychology. He is a member of the NYABJ, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Deadline Club (the Society's NY Chapter) serving as a judge for the annual awards, and the Baruch College Alumni Association.

His community involvement included as a volunteer tutor with Harlem Live – teaching journalism to high school seniors, and as Secretary of the Board of Directors of Queens Pride House. Antoine has presented at several forums, including as the keynote speaker, "Business of the Church in the Community" for Black History Month in 2007, as a guest speaker on "Recapturing the Male Image," for the 3rd Annual Men's Conference held at York College, CUNY in September 2008, and is a regular presenter at York College's Barbershop Series. For the Annual NYC High School Journalism Conference at Baruch College, CUNY, he was a workshop presenter, in Dec 2008, "It's all in the questions: Coming up with great interview questions", and in Nov 2009 "Grammar for Journalists". He was a panelist in Jul 2009 on GritTV with Laura Flanders discussing anti-gay violence in the Sasha Barron Cohen film "Bruno". He has participated in panel discussions on the state of the Black gay community in New York, and the media and the Black gay community.

On depression in Black gay men, the subject of a book, a documentary and community discussion forums nationwide, Antoine was a panelist, moderated by Jeffery Gardere, Ph.D. "America's Psychologist" in Mar 2011 at the Aljira, Center for Contemporary Arts in Newark, NJ, and in May has moderated discussions forums in Washington, DC during DC Black Pride and in New York City at Riverside Church, and in June during Harlem Pride. He has appeared on Blogtalk radio interviews with Kat Williams- Sipping on Ink, DJ SirRah, DJ Baker Da Doo Dirty Show, BloomingOUT Radio, and WBAI 99.5 OUTFM.