Christopher Lee Nutter

Christopher Lee Nutter (born May 2, 1970) is the author of The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block (HCI Press, May 2006), and co-author of Ignite the Genius Within (Penguin, March 2009). He is also a former magazine and newspaper journalist whose work appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, New York, Vibe, Time Out New York and Out. He now runs a successful media consulting business in New York City handling the public relations for high-profile businesses -- including Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv and Martial Vivot Salon Pour Hommes -- as well as ghost-writing and creative project development for commercial artists.

Early career

Nutter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi in 1993. Nutter first achieved notoriety for an essay he wrote for Details magazine in 1994 about life inside the closet. He moved to New York shortly afterwards to become a trend writer for publications such as The Village Voice, Vibe, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and The Advocate. He also wrote the popular nightlife column for HX (magazine) in the late nineties, and was a regular on the Manhattan and Miami Beach gay party scene as a bartender, doorman, and party boy.

Metrosexual / Post-Straight

His next important piece was as the first writer to report on the influence of gay culture on straight men for the Village Voice in 2001 called "Post-Straight, How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys", predicting the Metrosexual trend which appeared two years later. In 2003, he starred in VH-1's Totally Gay! to discuss the cultural history behind this trend.

The Way Out

With The Way Out he began receiving increased attention from the mainstream media. He has been Called “the gay Dr. Phil” by Gay Web Monkey magazine, "a new voice in the great American debate about values" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and endorsed by GLAAD and Gary Zukav.

Ignite the Genius Within

In March, 2009 his new multi-media creativity workbook, Ignite The Genius Within, co-authored with noted EMDR therapist Dr. Christine Ranck, was published by Penguin/Dutton.

Nutter Media

In 2006 Nutter started a New York-based media consulting business called Nutter Media Insider Solutions handling the public relations for high-profile businesses such as Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv (which designed the logos for Chase bank, NBC, PBS, Mobil Oil and Showtime) and Martial Vivot Salon Pour Hommes (the only high end men's salon in New York City); products such as the Martial Vivot Grooming Line For Hair (which appeared in the Official Golden Globes Ceremony Gift Bag For Men in 2014 and 2015) and the Essential Cami, the first backless camisole, which has appeared on Dr. Oz and the Gayle King Show; and for shows such as Chef Erica Wides' Let's Get Real: The Cooking Show About Finding, Preparing and Eating Food on the Heritage Radio Network. (Nutter and Wides together coined the Stephen Colbert inspired term "Foodiness" as a catchall term for all processed foods.)

Public High Line Opposition

Beginning in 2012, Nutter became a vocal opponent of the High Line’s effect on Chelsea’s commercial and gay life by writing the first op-ed on the subject – When Kansas Invaded Oz: An Enemy Of The High Line Speaks Out -- which was published in the Huffington Post. He has also given television interviews on the subject, and written related stories for the Huffington Post about Chelsea’s commercial and cultural life vanishing as a result of the 4 million tourists a year who descend on the neighborhood. Nutter has done gratis PR work for extant Chelsea local businesses.

External links

Articles by Nutter

References

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