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Rex Wockner Biography
Rex Wockner is an American freelance journalist who has reported news for the gay press and mainstream periodicals since 1985. He is well for his work appearing in more than 325 gay publications in 38 countries.
Rex Wockner Education
Wockner got enrolled and later earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and began his reporting career in radio.
Rex Wockner Career
Wockner has made a specialty of covering gay and lesbian news stories from around the world. Wockner traveled to Denmark to report on the world’s first same-sex civil unions in 1989, and likewise covered the world’s first same-sex marriages in the Netherlands in 2001.
Wockner also reported from the scene on the first gay pride events in Moscow and Leningrad in 1991 and has reported extensively on gay rights movements in the former East Bloc and developing countries, as well as from the International Lesbian and Gay Association world conferences and international AIDS conferences.
In the United States, Wockner has reported on many political and social developments affecting LGBT people, including coverage of the political conventions of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, NLGJA conferences, the GLAAD Awards, and major ACT UP demonstrations.
Wockner’s journalism has included a weekly 1,000-word roundup of gay news from outside the United States, a weekly 700-word opinion column called The Wockner Wire, and a biweekly roundup of gay quotables called Quote Unquote.
In 1998, Wockner had 91 subscribers to his international news feed, prompting PlanetOut chairman Tom Rielly to call Wockner a “one-man gay AP (Associated Press)”. Wockner was the subject of a biographical article in Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia (1998). He was also one of the discussion participants for the 2002 book Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions by Ron Suresha. Wockner currently lives in San Diego.
Rex Wockner Age
He was born in 1957 in America.
Rex Wockner Family | Young
There is no information about Rex’s family, he has not also shared about his early life and how he was raised up. he has also not shared about his parents and their occupation. There is also no information about him having siblings.
Rex Wockner Married
There is no information about Rex having been married, he has not shared any information about him having married and has opted to keep silent about his personal life. He has also not shared any information about him having dated before. Wockner is a lapsed Catholic and former seminarian.
Rex Wockner Children
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Rex Wockner Height
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Rex Wockner Salary
His annual salary is between $10k to $50k.
Rex Wockner Net Worth
Rex estimated net worth is around $100k to $1M.
