Rex Wockner Biography
Rex Wockner is an American freelance journalist who has covered LGBT and mainstream news since 1985. His writing has been published in over 325 homosexual periodicals in 38 countries.
Rex Wockner Age
Rex Wockner Education
Wockner earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Rex Wockner Family
Attempts to establish the identities of her family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Rex Wockner Married
Wockner is a lapsed Catholic and former seminarian.
Rex Wockner Career
He began his career as a radio reporter. Wockner has made a career out of reporting on gay and lesbian news from throughout the world. Wockner traveled to Denmark in 1989 to cover the world’s first same-sex civil unions, and again in 2001 to cover the world’s first same-sex marriages in the Netherlands. Wockner also covered the first gay pride events in Moscow and Leningrad in 1991, as well as gay rights movements in the former Soviet Union and developing countries, as well as International Lesbian and Gay Association world conferences and international AIDS conferences.
Wockner has covered various political and social developments affecting LGBT persons in the United States, including coverage of the Democratic and Republican Party conventions, NLGJA conferences, the GLAAD Awards, and significant ACT UP demonstrations. Wockner’s journalism has included a weekly 1,000-word summary of homosexual news from around the world called The Wockner Wire, a weekly 700-word opinion column called The Wockner Wire, and a bimonthly roundup of gay quotables called Quote Unquote. Wockner’s international news stream had 91 subscribers in 1998, causing PlanetOut chairman Tom Rielly to refer to him as a “one-man gay AP (Associated Press).” Wockner’s biography was published in Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia (1998). He was also a discussion participant in Ron Suresha’s 2002 book Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions.
Rex Wockner Net Worth
Rex has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
