Matthew Breen is an American journalist, editor, producer, and consultant living in

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, NY,

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. He is the former editorial director a
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He was previously the editor-in-chief of ''

The Advocate An advocate is a professional in the field of law. The Advocate, The Advocates or Advocate may also refer to: Magazines * The Advocate (magazine), ''The Advocate'' (magazine), an LGBT magazine based in the United States * ''The Harvard Advocate' ...

'', a national LGBT news magazine, and deputy editor at ''

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''. He was previously a freelance film critic, and the program director for the 2001 Austin Film Festival, and an associate film programmer for the 2002 IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival, and media manager for the 1998 and 1999

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

s. Breen's petition demanding the pardon of the approximatel
49,000 men convicted of "gross indecency" laws in the United Kingdom
gathered nearly 500,000 signatures
U.K. campaigners and the relatives
of

Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer ...

br>delivered 10 Downing Street
in 2015. The

Alan Turing Law "Alan Turing law" is an informal term for the portion of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 which serves in UK law to pardon men who were cautioned or convicted under obsolete laws criminalising homosexual acts. The provision is named after Ala ...

was enacted in 2017.

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RealScreen.com
People on the Move
The Advocate’s Matthew Breen Headed to BrooklynThe editor of The Advocate talks about the magazine returning to newsstands and the big gay news stories of 2013.Journalist Q&A , PR Week
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