Name: Ronan Farrow, 30
Who He Is: Journalist, media celeb
Why He Matters: Farrow became one of the forerunners of the #MeToo movement by exposing sexual abuses in Hollywood. Prior to that, he became the youngest graduate of Bard College at age 15. He went on to get a degree from Yale Law School, work in the Obama Administration, and host his own MSNBC show before joining the staff at The New Yorker. (He’s also the son of actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen.)
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Why We’re Proud: Leave it to LGBTQ-er to get done what nobody else could. Farrow’s reporting on sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein helped trigger the #MeToo, a movement begging to happen. Even as Hollywood royalty himself, Farrow encountered a great deal of pushback for outing a man so powerful as a sexual predator, and refused to back down. Most recently, in collaboration with reporter Jane Mayer, he brought down New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after revealing Schneiderman had physically assaulted at least four women.
Farrow’s hard-fought reporting earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 2017. But he’s hardly one note. Farrow’s new book, War on Peace takes on the Trump Administration’s dissolution of American diplomacy. He also just confirmed what many a rumor had long rumbled: he identifies as a queer man.
No doubt, it won’t be the last time he makes us proud.
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DCguy
Congrats to Ronan Farrow, the only benefit to his not having his own show is that he is firing out these well researched exposes over and over.
Andy Lack at MSNBC trying to turn MSNBC into FOX News lite got rid of Farrow, Tried to get rid of Chris Hayes and Lawrence O’Donell and bring in people from Fox News like Greta Van Sustran, Meghan Kelly.
So now that Greta’s show failed and Meghan Kelly is a 20 million dollar low rated disaster, it’s nice to see Farrow succeeding. Hopefully the NBC board will dump Lack and get somebody there who actually knows how to run things.
tnguy
Everyone who has ever hidden in the closet for an appreciable amount of time has done some publicly shameful, private acts to assuage his own conscience.
As he exposes other’s, I look forward to reading about his own.
DCguy
Translation: You’re trying to deflect from the sexual assaults and other activates, AND trying to insinuate things about him since he recently exposed some nasty things about Trump and the GOP.
Nice Try
Mick406
tnguy
True!
From a kyguy
yaletownman
“Everyone”??? So on what scientific fact do you base that upon? Oh, that’s right…..you are the Tn. guy aren’t you? The “monkey state” that is infamous for or relying upon science or truth.
OzJosh
You’re not just nasty, you’re wrong about Farrow. He was never in the closet; he’s always been open. There’s a difference between being private and being closeted. But Farrow never refuted claims he was gay, attended public events and was photographed with his partner, etc. If you’ve always been out you don’t need to make an announcement.
crowebobby
Not germane to the article, but he has the most incredible skin! I find it hard to concentrate on anything else when I watch him. Feel not sexual attraction to him, just amazement.
ingyaom
Didn’t it come out that his father is really Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow was scamming Woody Allen for child-support for all those years? He looks a lot more like Frank than Woody to me.
Brian
It’s never officially come out, but everyone knows the truth. It’s pretty obvious.
Greg
Yep. He, in no way resembles Woody Allen.
OzJosh
Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has proved fairly conclusively that Frank could not be Farrow’s father. Farrow was conceived sometime in early 1987, at which time Sinatra was recovering from major surgery resulting from acute diverticulitis. He’d had part of his intestine removed, had a colostomy and was recovering in Hawaii, then Palm Springs, attended closely by his wife. He was never anywhere near New York, where Mia resided with Woody Allen. It’s also been alleged that Sinatra was impotent throughout this period, and that he later had a penile implant. Mia’s comment that Frank “could be” the father was clearly just a bitchy jibe, aimed to hurt Allen. And Farrow has subsequently joked about it for the same reason. No, he doesn’t look at all like Allen. He his blond hair, blue eyes and lush lips are more like Farrow’s than Sinatra’s.
DCguy
He looks like Sinatra, the problem about that is, so does his mother. IF you see pictures of them when they were young, Mia Farow and Sinatra look very similar.
happiness17
Actually Mia Farrow had every right to try and get child support from Woody Allen. Allen’s name is on Ronan’s birth certificate. Allen has always claimed that Ronan is his son. Although Sinatra probably is Ronan’s father (the resemblance is uncanny) it’s never been proven for a fact. That said Allen should’ve paid child support.
MikeE
@Happiness17
Woody Allen DID pay child support for Ronan.
He said that if Frank Sinatra was in fact Ronan’s father, then why had HE (Woody Allen) been paying child support.
Curtispsf
I saw an interview with Ronan Farrow. And I was impressed by his INTELLIGENCE and ARTICULATENESS. And yeah, he does have great skin, but that takes a back seat to his brain.
Doug
This guy looks so much like his mother it’s creepy. Oh yeah…. “Rosemary’s Baby…”
niles
Interesting tidbit: Trump and Cohen knew about the allegations of Schneiderman 2 years ago. One has to wonder where Farrow is getting his intel, especially since his 2 big targets have both been high profile Democrats. For once, Queerty, dig a bit deeper before you offer accolades.
Kangol
Jennifer Gonnerman of the New Yorker is allegedly friends with a friend of Roger Stone’s, and she allegedly introduced one of Schneiderman’s accusers, who also supposedly had a link to Michael Cohen, to Jane Mayer at the New Yorker. That’s how Trump and Cohen knew about the allegations against Schneiderman a while back, and why Trump was able to tweet about Schneiderman’s eventual downfall well before the fact. That said, Ronan Farrow has stated that he did not depend upon this person linked to Cohen, Stone and Trump, but it is still a bit strange that that link exists at all.
nitejonboy
Woody Allen my ass, we know who your daddy is!! Regardless, you are a great American doing great things for your community and we applaud you and salute you!!
hellinhaven
good for him….he takes the movement to a higher place with his knowledge and courage to help eradicate bigotry, racism, and corruption in politics. Everything should always be brought out into the light and exposed when it is detrimental to our democracy….i.e. queen trump…the destroyer!