Michael Goff

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Michael Goff is a gay entrepreneur who founded Out magazine and was its first editor in chief and President. This was the first gay magazine to feature top notch writers and photographers from mainstream magazines with writers for the gay press, the first to bring in all the big advertisers, and passed all the other gay magazines in circulation. He later was general manager of Microsoft MSN when it was first taken to the internet. He inspired Visual Aids to launch the red ribbon campaign with his column in Outweek. "The trigger was a column by Michael Goff in the American gay/lesbian magazine OutWeek. Mr Goff had looked around at all the yellow ribbons worn in support of the 1990-91 Gulf War, and he asked why there wasn't a ribbon for HIV/Aids." The Independent World AIDS Day 2006 More recently he was Dan Gillmor's partner in citizen journalism company publishing Bayosphere and is involved with many media and tech companies and blogs.