Christopher Lee Nutter (born May 2, 1970) is the author of The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block (HCI Press, May 2006), and co-author of Ignite the Genius Within (Penguin, March 2009).
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Nutter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi in 1993. Nutter first achieved notoriety for an essay he wrote for Details magazine in 1994 about life inside the closet. He moved to New York shortly afterwards to become a trend writer for publications such as The Village Voice, Vibe, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and The Advocate. He also wrote the popular nightlife column for HX (magazine) in the late nineties, and was a regular on the Manhattan and Miami Beach gay party scene as a bartender, doorman, and party boy.
His next important piece was as the first writer to report on the influence of gay culture on straight men for the Village Voice in 2001 called "Post-Straight, How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys", predicting the Metrosexual trend which appeared two years later. In 2003, he starred in VH-1's Totally Gay! to discuss the cultural history behind this trend.
With The Way Out he began receiving increased attention from the mainstream media. He has been Called “the gay Dr. Phil” by Gay Web Monkey magazine, "a new voice in the great American debate about values" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and endorsed by GLAAD and Gary Zukav.
In March, 2009 his new multi-media creativity workbook, Ignite The Genius Within, co-authored with noted EMDR therapist Dr. Christine Ranck, was published by Penguin/Dutton.