Zack Ford

Zack Ford is a researcher and blogger on LGBT issues for Think Progress and an outspoken activist for LGBT equality and atheism based in Washington, DC.

Background
Ford grew up in the rural town of Newport, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Ithaca College in 2007 with a Bachelors of Music Education, having served as the school's Student Body President. In 2009, he completed a Master's degree in Higher Education (Student Affairs) at Iowa State University. He founded ZackFord Blogs in January 2009 and wrote for it regularly until he began writing for Think Progress in March of 2011. He also co-hosts the Queer and Queerer podcast with activist and performing artist Peterson Toscano.

Credited work
Ford helped to found the Central Pennsylvania LGBT Aging Network.

Ford made his debut on Wikipedia when an uncredited photo of him from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was posted on Wikipedia's page for the Homosexual Agenda. At the rally, Ford gave "Free Hugs from a Militant Atheist with a Gay Agenda."

He is also credited with the idea of collecting and displaying LGBT related hashtags in resources such as WikiQueer.