Andrew Sullivan, a gay man, is a British-born American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish, in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to various publishing platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015. Sullivan has been a writer-at-large at New York since 2016.