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.[1] Out was the first gay magazine to feature top writers and photographers from mainstream magazines alongside writers for the gay press, the first to bring in major advertisers, and now surpasses other gay magazines in circulation.^{[citation needed]}

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." [2] 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.