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Dennis has a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia Tech and a law degree from the University of Virginia.

He has worked on AfterElton since 2006 as a freelance writer, blogger, assistant editor, managing editor and now editor. (Or Editor-in-Chief whenever he's feeling particularly full of himself.)

Now he spends most of his his time behind the scenes, focused on growing the site and making our many talented contributors look good.

Dennis divides his time between Los Angeles and Virginia, and you can visit him online at www.dennisayers.com.

snicks started his showbiz career as lead singer in a Mr. Mister cover band, and became world-renowned for donning a sheer white bodysuit and performing aerial acrobatics during "Broken Wings."

Anyway, now snicks is a contributing editor at AfterElton. His chief priority is to try to sneak as many 80's references onto the site as possible.

And contrary to speculation, he was not the body double for Gilles Marini in Sex & The City.

Ed grew up in the hills of West Virginia before he left to see the world in the Air Force only to make it as far as Virginia. He's since traveled the globe and lived a nomadic existence in D.C., San Diego, and Miami, cultivating his love of Muppets, bacon and chocolate, all while staying just ahead of a group of deadly assassin cats.

He's currently back in the hills of West Virginia, plugged into the Internet 24/7, wondering if his knees will allow him to snow ski again.

Brian has been writing about pop culture - particularly the bloody, undead, and/or unsightly bits - since 2003, when he launched CampBlood.org Otherwise he is quite nice and ordinary, even when he refers to himself in the third person in bios. Which he tends to do.

Brian is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and occasionally a filmmaker himself. He hates eggplant.

While Anthony went to college to study Journalism and Creative Writing, he came out of it never expecting anyone would be crazy enough to pay him for his scribblings, especially about his passion for soap operas. He hopes the folks at AfterElton.com don’t realize they keep cutting him checks.

When he’s not working on the Langford on Soaps column or one his blogs keeping readers abreast of the latest developments on Emmerdale or Hollyoaks, he keeps himself busy writing his second novel. What happened to his first? Well, Anthony doesn’t like to talk about that.EmailTwitterArchiveProfile

Christie Keith is a journalist who, many years ago, was blogging with Michael Jensen and Brent Hartinger on something called "The Big Gay Picture" when they lured her over to AfterElton with promises that she could write about Xena: Warrior Princess as much as she wanted as long as she interspersed it with long pictoral essays about guys kissing each other and having sex in the movies.

What lesbian could turn down an offer like that?

JT Riley is a playwright/advice columnist/kisser-and-teller whose exploits in love are well documented in his AfterElton.com column entitled SGM Seeks LTR in NYC. He also doles out ridiculously unqualified advice in his column Ask JT!

When not working on his columns or plays, he can be seen scouring the Internet for tidbits about Lord of the Rings and pictures of Darren Criss shirtless.

If he wasn't so worried about being sued by the various people that he talks about in his columns, he would probably exist as more than a cartoon character on the Internet.

Jamie is perhaps better known as Rantasmo, host of a video blog exploring the highs and lows of gay culture. He currently lives in Michigan and spends a great deal of time talking about geeky, weird, or incredibly obscure things.

Clinton is a Southern California native and has been a successful working artist for the past twenty years. His work has been commissioned and collected by numerous celebrity clients.

In addition to his artwork he is also a professional photographer... with a knack for wrangling skittish celebrities.

He has recently done a number of photo shoots for AfterElton. (Brad Goreski, Wilson Cruz, Grant Goreski, Alan Ritchson, Alex Wong, Jake Nodar, etc.)

You can see his collected work for the site here: Clinton Gaughran Photography for AferElton

JMc is an award-winning marketing writer and has also written biographies of Aretha Franklin, Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks.

He lives outside Philadelphia with his partner and two feline crazies.

Campion, who will also answer to ASH, lives on the shores of Georgian Bay and close to the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada. He has had careers in tourism, internet technical support, and insurance.

He came out at university at about the same time as the debate over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell started. When not online he enjoys reading (gay mystery novels) and combines amateur photography with Geocaching (basically he uses billions of dollars in satellite technology to hunt for Tupperware in the woods).

Michael Jensen is originally from Colorado but ran away to Australia as soon as he could. He now lives in Seattle and drinks lots of Starbucks despite the protests of his partner Brent (see below!).

Before learning the joys of snarking on the internet, Michael wrote two gay-themed historical fiction novels — Frontiers and Firelands. He is still waiting for Jake Gyllenhaal to star in the movie adaptations of the books.

Aymar is a researcher and freelance journalist who regularly writes about web video, television and film. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Washington Post, among numerous blogs and other publications.

You can find out more about his writing and research at ajchristian.org.

Niko was born and raised in what feels sometimes like the most conservative suburb on the planet. He's been interested in writing almost as long as he can remember, though the vast majority of his writing is still sitting on his hard drive or in the dozens of notebooks scattered around his bedroom.

Film critic, fest consultant, author of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men & Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What the Flick?!

He lives in an awesome rent-controlled apartment with his husband Dave White, author of the very funny memoir Exile in Guyville.

Josh was born and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where his books are set. He now lives in Baltimore, MD. He's published four books in the Killian Kendall mystery series. His first book, Bleeding Hearts, introduced gay teen sleuth Killian Kendall, and won several awards, including the Whodunit Award from the StoneWall Society. He followed up by winning the Whodunit Award again the following year for Reap the Whirlwind. The third book in the series, All Lost Things, was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Awards for Gay Mystery. The Truth of Yesterday is fourth in theEmailTwitterArchiveProfile

Steven is a professional writer and completely unprofessional TV viewer/snarker. He's been contributing to AfterElton since 2007, kicking off with an article titled "What Makes 'Buffy' a Gay Icon?" He lives in New York City with his now-legal husband (!) and two sons(!)

Brian Davis (BriOut) is a native of Omaha, Nebraska who was bitten by the writing bug only after he won a writing contest in high school. His short story "Paid For By Charlie" went on to win Short Fiction of the Year from the Omaha World-Herald newspaper.

He's always been interested in material that straddled the line between entertainment and social awareness, if not justice. He's currently writing two screenplays, a novel and an internet sitcom. Will these things ever see the light of day? As they say in TV Land, stay tuned.

Davis Mallory was formerly a cast member on MTV's The Real World (Season 18 in Denver, CO as well as several Real World/Road Rules Challenges. Currently Mallory resides in New York City working at EMI Music as Marketing Coordinator for the Astralwerks label - home to Kylie Minogue, David Guetta, The B-52's and numerous other dance and electronica artists. For AfterElton.com Mallory writes the New Music Mix column.

Writer/performer Dennis Hensley is a staff writer on E!’s new hit series Fashion Police with Joan Rivers. He is also the author of the novels Misadventures in the (213) and Screening Party. He recently released a DVD of his short film projects called The Dennis Hensley 5-Pack.