About Our Contributors

Lesley Goldberg/Entertainment

Leslie Goldberg, who interviewed Margaret Cho for this edition’s cover story, is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles whose byline has appeared on several entertainment features in Echo over the past few months. It’s a beat she knows well as senior copy editor at The Hollywood Reporter for the past seven years.

Goldberg also writes for Afterellen.com, The Advocate and Frontiers, the LGBT magazine in Los Angeles.

Her celebrity interviews have included Jane Lynch, Brandi Carlile, Dustin Lance Black, Jennifer Beals and the entire cast of The Real L Word. Goldberg acknowledges, “I have a fun job.”

Every writer has a “wish list” of people they’d like to interview, and Goldberg said she was able to scratch singer Sarah McLachlan from the top of her list after a recent interview. Who’s left on the list? “I’d love to talk with Anna Paquin,” Goldberg said.

For this edition, Goldberg also wrote a preview of the new fall TV season. As for what she’s looking forward to on TV, Goldberg said she’s eager to see where Grey’s Anatomy takes Callie and Arizona’s relationship..

Meg Sneed/Columnist

Meg Sneed needs no introduction to the local LGBT community. Attend just about any rally or meeting and Sneed is there. Chances are she’s organized the event. She’s a founder and co-leader of two Valley efforts — Human & Equal Rights Organizers (H.E.R.O.) and the Right to Marry: Arizona Equality Walk.

Sneed’s work, including protests of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, has put her name in Echo news stories frequently during the past year. But she also contributes her thoughts about activism to her Sneedivism column.

For her column in this edition, Sneed reviews some of the highlights from the third annual Equality Walk, the event in August that covered 98 miles in northern Arizona