--- title: Steven Petrow | TIME description: Steven Petrow writes the Civilities column about LGBT/straight social dilemmas for The Washington Post and is the author of five etiquette books. He’s a former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. Follow him at Facebook.com/stevenpetrow or @stevenpetrow. canonical: https://time.com/author/steven-petrow/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/steven-petrow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steven Petrow ## Steven Petrow Steven Petrow writes the [Civilities column](http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/steven-petrow) about LGBT/straight social dilemmas for _The Washington Post_ and is the author of five etiquette books. He’s a former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. Follow him at or [@stevenpetrow](https://twitter.com/StevenPetrow). ## Steven Petrow *  Mar 17, 2015 ### [By Sharing Death on the Web, Dying May Not Feel So Alone](https://time.com/3746236/dying-end-of-life-social-media/) When terminal illness is chronicled for all the world to witness, the end of life takes on new meani... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 15, 2014 ### [The Fight's Not Over: Gay People Need to Voice Our Rage](https://time.com/3378273/lgbt-fight-not-over/) No, these are not the 'good old days' for gay rights [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-petrow/","name":"Steven Petrow"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-petrow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-petrow/"},"name":"Steven Petrow","jobTitle":null,"description":"Steven Petrow writes the Civilities column about LGBT/straight social dilemmas for The Washington Post and is the author of five etiquette books. He’s a former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. Follow him at Facebook.com/stevenpetrow or @stevenpetrow.","url":"https://time.com/author/steven-petrow/","sameAs":["https://x.com/stevenpetrow"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```