{{Short description|American editor and writer (1948–2011)}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|1|6}} | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|08|3|1948|1|6}} | death_place = Apple Valley, California, US | alma_mater = Yale University | occupation = Editor and writer | years_active = 1980s to 2011 | employer = {{indented plainlist| * ''Journal of Homosexuality'' * ''The Advocate'' * ''Daily Press''}} }} '''Stuart Kellogg''' (January 6, 1948 – August 3, 2011) was an American editor, journalist, novelist, and LGBTQ advocate. He was the editor of ''The Advocate'' and the managing editor of the ''Journal of Homosexuality.''
== Early life == Kellogg was born on January 6, 1948 in New York City, New York.<ref>''New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965'' [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.</ref><ref>National Archives at Washington, D.C. ''Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950''; Census Place: ''Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut''; Roll: ''2153''; Page: ''30''; Enumeration District: ''3-50. via Ancestry.com''</ref> His parents were Wynne (née Krementz) and George Dwight Kellogg Jr., a teacher and assistance headmaster at Hotchkiss School.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=August 17, 2011 |title=Stuart Kellogg Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/stuart-kellogg-obituary?pid=153156715 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Legacy.com |publisher=New York Times}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Steve |date=August 8, 2011 |title=About Stuart ... |url=https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/sports/2011/08/08/about-stuart/37099817007/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Victorville Daily Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=George Kellogg Obituary (2010) - Hesperia, CA - Hesperia Star |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hesperiastar/name/george-kellogg-obituary?id=21421525 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref> His mother died in 1961.<ref name=":7" /> His paternal grandfather, George Dwight Kellogg, was a classical scholar who taught at Williams College, Princeton University, Union College, and Rutgers University–New Brunswick.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gordon |first=Laura |title=KELLOGG, George Dwight |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8835-kellogg-george-dwight |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Database of Classical Scholars {{!}} Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |language=en-gb}}</ref>
Kellogg attended Groton School.<ref name=":1" /> He graduated with a degree in English from Yale College in 1970, cum laude.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kellogg |first=Stuart |date=March 1997 |title=The Yale of My Day |url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/97_03/kellogg.html |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Yale Alumni Magazine}}</ref> While at Yale, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall.<ref name=":102">{{Cite journal |date=2013 |title=Necrology |url=https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.stanthonyhall.org/resource/resmgr/reviews/winter_2013_review.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=The Review |publisher=St. Anthony Hall |volume=Winter |pages=14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707015404/https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.stanthonyhall.org/resource/resmgr/reviews/winter_2013_review.pdf |archive-date=July 7, 2022}}</ref>
== Career == In the early 1980s, Kellogg was the managing editor of the ''Journal of Homosexuality'' and ''The Advocate'', a bi-monthly magazine covering LGBTQ topics.<ref name=":1" /> He was the executive editor of ''The Advocate'' from 1987 to April 1990.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Ring |first=Trudy |date=August 25, 2011 |title=Former Advocate Editor Kellogg Dies |url=https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/08/25/former-advocate-editor-kellogg-dies |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Advocate |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Krier |first=Beth Ann |date=April 4, 1990 |title="Outing' empties the closet |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1990/04/04/outing-empties-the-closet/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Krier |first=Beth Ann |date=1990-03-22 |title=Whose Sex Secret Is It?: Do We Have a Right to Know a Public Figure's Sexual Orientation? Recent Disclosures by Gay Activists, Media Fuel a Bitter Debate |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-22-vw-1187-story.html |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> He left the magazine to write books.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> He also edited books on queer theory and homosexuality in literature.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cabe |first=Matthew |title=This Desert Life: The night Stuart Kellogg caught ghosts |url=https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/lifestyle/around-town/2016/10/21/this-desert-life-night-stuart/24575753007/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Victorville Daily Press |language=en-US}}</ref>
Kellogg was a features writer and columnist for the ''Daily Press'' in Victorville, California from 1986 to 2007.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Yosten |first=Karen |date=August 4, 2011 |title=Longtime Daily Press features writer Stuart Kellogg dies |url=https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/2011/08/04/longtime-daily-press-features-writer/37100242007/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Victorville Daily Press |language=en-US}}</ref> He often wrote about California's High Desert and its residents.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> He also wrote fiction, literary criticism, and a novel.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Essence of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |url=https://www.axiospress.com/bookstore/the-essence-of-aristotles-nicomachean-ethics/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Axios Press}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
== Personal life == Kellogg's partner of 26 years was Fernando Torres, a ''Daily Press'' graphic artist.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6" /> They lived in Apple Valley, California.<ref name=":2" /> Kellogg's brother, David Kellogg, was the publisher of ''Foreign Affairs''.<ref name=":6" />
Kellogg died on August 3, 2011, at his home in Apple Valley at the age of 63.<ref name=":5" />
== Selected publications ==
=== As editor === * ''Essays on Gay Literature''. New York: Routledge, 1985. {{ISBN|9780918393098}} * ''The Essence of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics''. with Hunter Lewis. Edinburg, Virginia: Axios Press/Hunter Lewis Foundation, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-60419-042-7}} * ''Literary Visions of Homosexuality.'' New York: Routledge, 2016. {{ISBN|9781138968967}}
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