William Douglas Ireland ( March 31 , 1946 – October 26 , 2013 ) was an American journalist and blogger who wrote about politics , power , media , and LGBT issues . He was the U.S. correspondent for the French political-investigative weekly Bakchich , for which he also wrote a weekly column , and he was also the Contributing Editor for International Affairs of Gay City News . Scott Tucker has called him " not only a left-wing critic of sexual and political conformism among sectors of the lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender movements , but ... also one of the notable public intellectuals of the civil libertarian left . " An early member of the Dump Johnson movement , Ireland was recruited for the staff of the presidential campaign of the man who became the anti-war candidate of the Dump Johnson movement , Senator Eugene McCarthy , for whom Ireland coordinated the Mid-Atlantic region of states . Following the 1968 Democratic National Convention ( at which he coordinated McCarthy 's labor support and helped organize demonstrations by Convention delegates against police brutality targeting anti-war demonstrators ) Ireland went to Long Island to help run the successful campaign for Congress by Allard Lowenstein , considered the principal founder of the Dump Johnson movement
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