Richie Jackson

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  • Award-Winning Broadway, TV, and Film Producer
  • Author of 'Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son'
  • Columnist for The Advocate
  • LGBTQ Activist

Richie Jackson is the author of Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son published by HarperCollins. He is an award-winning Broadway, television, and film producer who most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway. He executive produced Showtime’s Nurse Jackie (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for Best Comedy Series) for seven seasons and co-executive produced the film Shortbus, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. 

As an alumnus of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, he endowed a fellowship program at his alma mater in 2015 to assist graduates in the transition from academia to a lifelong career in the arts called The Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship. He and his husband, Jordan Roth, were honored with The Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award.

 



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Rave Reviews About Richie Jackson as a Speaker
Richie’s ability to tell his amazing journey as a son, partner, & parent and have the audience personalize it through their own lens and experience was remarkable. He pulled in the audience from the beginning and had us fully engaged to the very end!

Keynote - The Best of Times or The Worst of Times? A Generational Perspective on the New Queer Reality | Mansfield Coll., Oxford [1:19:15] - Get Sharable Link
Talks & Conversations with Richie Jackson

Visibility is not a Cure-All

Being Gay Requires Double Vision

It's harder to come out now than it was in 1983, when I did.

Coming Out is Every Day

Being a Good Gay Citizen

Pride Isn't Just a Parade

Rainbows Have Lulled the LGBTQ Community into Complacency

Loving Someone is the Noblest Ambition

Parenting is the Most Hopeful Act to Change the World

What it Means to be a Gay Man

What it Takes to be a Gay Man in America

How to Build Gay Self Esteem

What I've Learned from Living Through the Last Four Decades of LGBTQ History

Being Gay is a Gift

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<p>In Gay We Trust, a new monthly column in The Advocate by Richie Jackson</p>

In Gay We Trust, a new monthly column in The Advocate by Richie Jackson

From his successes in authoring Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Gay Son and producing award-winning shows on Broadway, television, and film, RICHIE JACKSON possesses landmark perspectives and insights and you can read his latest thoughts in his monthly column, In Gay We Trust, in The Advocate.  Read his column here  > >

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Biography

Richie Jackson is the author of Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son published by HarperCollins. He is an award-winning Broadway, television, and film producer who most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway. He executive produced Showtime’s Nurse Jackie (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for Best Comedy Series) for seven seasons and co-executive produced the film Shortbus, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. 

As an alumnus of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, he endowed a fellowship program at his alma mater in 2015 to assist graduates in the transition from academia to a lifelong career in the arts called The Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship. He and his husband, Jordan Roth, were honored with The Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award.