Megan Carpentier

Megan Carpentier is a freelance writer and an editor at Jezebel.com whose work has also been seen on Foreign Policy magazine's Madame Secretary blog, Glamour's political blog, on Wonkette, in Radar, and at WashingtonPost.com. Before regaining some semblance of a soul, she was a Very Serious Washington lobbyist who kept her unpaid opinions to herself.

The 'Out' Crowd at the Inauguration

Even as they sipped Obama-tinis and danced to Melissa Etheridge, the revelers at the LGBT ball on Tuesday night questioned whether Obama’s soaring rhetoric about equality will be backed up by his policies on gay issues.

Megan Carpentier