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Paul V. Vitagliano

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Born

Boston, The United States

Website

http://www.BornThisWayBlog.com

Twitter

DJPaulV

Genre

Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Biography

Influences

Kiss, Bob Mackie, Harvey Milk, John Waters, Jane's Addiction

Member Since

July 2012

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Paul Vitagliano (aka DJ Paul V.) is an institution in the Los Angeles and Silver Lake club scene, and whose eclectic club and radio DJ career has thrived since 1981, first in his hometown of Boston and in Los Angeles since 1988.

In January 2011, Paul was inspired to create the "Born This Way Blog" - a photo/essay project for gay adults of all genders to submit their childhood pictures and stories and share their memories of growing up LGBTQ - http://www.BornThisWayBlog.com

Paul's simple but powerful idea of letting the gay community tell their unique stories touched people everywhere from the US to South America and all over Europe. BornThisWayBlog.com has achieved more than 5 million views since its debut and was featured on CNN, ABC News, S Paul Vitagliano (aka DJ Paul V.) is an institution in the Los Angeles and Silver Lake club scene, and whose eclectic club and radio DJ career has thrived since 1981, first in his hometown of Boston and in Los Angeles since 1988.

In January 2011, Paul was inspired to create the "Born This Way Blog" - a photo/essay project for gay adults of all genders to submit their childhood pictures and stories and share their memories of growing up LGBTQ - http://www.BornThisWayBlog.com

Paul's simple but powerful idea of letting the gay community tell their unique stories touched people everywhere from the US to South America and all over Europe. BornThisWayBlog.com has achieved more than 5 million views since its debut and was featured on CNN, ABC News, Salon, NPR, The Advocate, The Huffington Post, Sundance Channel and many more.

The "Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay" book - http://bit.ly/BornThisWayBook - features over 100 stories and photos, including contributions from the first openly gay Congress member, Barney Frank; Erasure's Andy Bell; acclaimed columnist Michael Musto; actor/drag performers Miss Coco Peru, Jackie Beat and Raja; actor Patrick Bristow; and other notable public figures from the gay community.
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CLUB AND DJ CAREER:

As co-creator and DJ at the beloved DRAGSTRIP 66 club (which at 20 years was LA's longest running underground dance event), Paul knows how to expertly work the CD decks with cutting-edge music and beats for alternative and gay/mixed dancefloors. He is also the go-to aficionado for mashups.

You can also hear him spinning tunes for various Goldenvoice concerts around Los Angeles, such as Robyn, OMD, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Jane's Addiction, Gang Of Four, Gary Numan, Nitzer Ebb, The Gossip and many more.

Paul brought music mashups to the masses on the LA airwaves in 2005 via Indie 103.1 FM with his "Mashup Of The Day" feature, and his electro/indie rock/mashups got heard every Friday afternoon via "The Smash Mix" and every Saturday night with his "Neon Noise" mix show - until they pulled the plug on the radio station entirely in 2009. His "Neon Noise" mix show is now back online on The Independent FM - Friday & Saturday nights from 9pm-12am pacific - http://bit.ly/IndieFMRadio

Paul has also been writing music reviews since 1988; he was In Mag LA's chief music reviewer since 1997, and is now a featured reviewer for Frontiers In LA Magazine. ...more

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Doug

Doug, age 11
Las Cruces, New Mexico (1981)

I'm on the far left here, and the only one 'posing' in this picture of my siblings, cousins, and my grandfather. Like so many others, I too destroyed most...

Nurture allows what nature endows.

I was born gay, and this is my childhood photo and story...

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Paul Vitagliano liked Casey Phillips's review of Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay: "What a funny and sweet book of stories. I can't imagine how encouraging this could be to someone having a hard time coming out or how affirming to someone that has, but needs some lifting up. The pictures are so cute too."
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Paul Vitagliano and 1 other person liked Jenn's review of Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay: "Sweet little book with small accounts of people being gay and when they knew. I myself am straight but i thoroughly enjoyed this book <3 "
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Paul Vitagliano liked Antony Simpson's review of Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay: "From AntonySimpson.com: Born This Way shares one hundred stories of people growing up gay from the 1940’s to the present day. Each of the contributors have shared a photo of them as a child and then wrote about their experiences. Celebrity contribut..." Read more of this review »
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Paul Vitagliano made a comment in the group Making Connections — Authors Sign Up topic " My name: Paul Vitagliano My book: "Born This Way: Real Stories Of Growing Up Gay" Genre: Non-Fiction / Biography Video promo - http://www.youtube.com/wat ...more "
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Paul Vitagliano made a comment in the group Making Connections — Ebook piracy and why authors should embrace it topic " I'm responding two-fold here: 1) As an author whose book is recently pirating on torrent sites. 2) As a long-time club and radio DJ Music wise, much of w ...more "
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