About me
Nico Lang is a journalist, editor, culture critic, and essayist. Lang is the founder of Queer News Daily and has previously worked as the deputy editor of Out magazine, an LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, the news editor at Them, and a contributing editor at Xtra Magazine. Their work has been published in Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, Slate, Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy, MTV News, Vox, NBC News, The New York Times, Salon, The Guardian, Queerty, The Advocate, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Their new book American Teenager was released this October. Lang was recently named Online Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club Association and is the recipient of 10 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalist, a GLAAD Award, and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund’s inaugural Visibility Award.