Nicholas F. Benton

Born in Ross, California, Benton earned a degree in English from Westmont College in 1965. He obtained a master of divinity degree in 1969 from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He became a contributor to the underground newspaper Berkeley Barb, during which time he came out as gay. Benton was an early member of the Berkeley Gay Liberation Front and wrote the first editorial for the newspaper Gay Sunshine.{{cite news |title= Gay Sunshine |publisher= Gay Sunshine Collective |location= Berkeley, California |oclc= 7445902}}{{failed verification |date=February 2022}} Benton also co-produced a pair of issues for The Effeminist.

From 1974 to the late 1980s, Benton worked with the Lyndon LaRouche organization, initially as a political organizer, and later as a reporter for LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review.{{cite web|last= Toporek |first= Bryan |title= The Life and Times of Nicholas F. Benton |website= Georgetown Journalism |publisher= Georgetown University |url= http://journalism.georgetown.edu/benton1.htm |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081017080610/http://journalism.georgetown.edu/benton1.htm |archive-date= 2008-10-17}}

Benton founded the Falls Church News-Press in March 1991. In addition to being the editor and main contributor to the News-Press, Benton writes for local publications such as the Metro Weekly.{{cite web |url=https://www.metroweekly.com/2011/05/nick-bentons-gay-science/ |title=Nick Benton's Gay Science |last=Shulman |first=Randy |date=May 7, 2011}}

Benton has been married and divorced three times; he has no children. He lives in Falls Church.{{cite interview |last= Benton |first= Nicholas F. |interviewer= Will O'Bryan |title= Citizen Nick: Nicholas F. Benton's gay-friendly, progressive paper grows in Falls Church |url= http://www.metroweekly.com/2007/08/citizen-nick/ |journal= Metro Weekly |location= Washington, D.C. |date= 2007-08-08 |access-date= 2015-03-27 }}

• {{cite book|last= Benton |first= Nicholas |author-link= Nicholas F. Benton |title= Theology, the church and homosexual liberation |year= 1970 |oclc= 44087262}} Length: 8, [3] leaves.
• {{cite book|last= Benton |first= Nicholas |author-link= Nicholas F. Benton |title= God and My Gay Soul |publisher= The Committee of Concern for Homosexuals |location= Berkeley, California |year= 1971 |url= http://grace.gtu.edu/search~S0?/abenton/abenton/1%2C19%2C32%2CB/frameset&FF=abenton+nicholas&1%2C1%2C

|oclc= 27410982}} An 11-page mimeographed pamphlet. Several sources ascribe this work to 1971, although Benton himself [http://fcnp.com/2012/08/08/nick-bentons-gay-science-no-96-the-proper-care-a-feeding-of-precious-gay-souls-pt-1/ says he wrote it in 1970.]

• {{cite book|last= Benton |first= Nick |author-link= Nicholas F. Benton |title= Sexism, Racism and White Faggots in Sodomist Amerika |publisher= The Effeminist |location= Berkeley, California |year= 1971 |asin= B000727IEC |oclc= 25184403}} Length: 15 pages.
• {{cite interview |last= Laurents |first= Arthur |subject-link= Arthur Laurents |interviewer= Nicholas Benton and Judith Green |title= Reminiscences of Arthur Laurents: oral history, 1971 |series= Hollywood film industry project |year= 1971 |oclc= 122598174}} Transcript: 26 leaves. Tape: 1 cassette.
• {{cite book|last= Benton |first= Nick |author-link= Nicholas F. Benton |title= Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming Gay Sensibility's Central Role in the Progress of Civilization |publisher= Lethe Press |date=2013|isbn= 9781590213926 |oclc= 853618574 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UYJUAQAAQBAJ}} Length: 344 pages.
• {{cite book|last=Benton |first=Nick |author-link= Nicholas F. Benton |title= Gay Men in the Feminist Revolution|publisher=BCI Press |date=2018 |url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nicholas-f-benton/we-were-gay-men-in-the-feminist-revolution/}}
• {{cite book|last= Benton |first= Nick |author-link= Nicholas F. Benton |title= Education of a Gay Soul|publisher=BCI Press |date= 2021 |url= https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58082152-education-of-a-gay-soul}}

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• {{cite web|last= Eisele |first= Al |title= A Very Good Week for a Small Town Newspaper Publisher |website= The Huffington Post |date= 2010-07-26 |access-date= 2015-03-26 |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-eisele/a-very-good-week-for-a-sm_b_658778.html}}.
• Bergholz, Richard. "Labor Party Candidate Seeks GOP Aid," Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1978.
• Elfman, Lois, "Community Voice," The Scene magazine, February 2006.
• {{cite book|editor-last= Mecca |editor-first= Tommi Avicolli |title= Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation |date= 2009-06-01 |publisher= City Lights Publishers |location= San Francisco |isbn= 978-0872864979 }}.
• PR Newswire, "Falls Church News-Press Owner Nicholas F. Benton Donates $10,000 to Falls Church City Schools to Establish Ground-Breaking 'Diversity Affirmation Education Fund'," May 2, 2005.
• {{cite interview |last= Benton |first= Nicholas F. |interviewer= Will O'Bryan |title= Citizen Nick: Nicholas F. Benton's gay-friendly, progressive paper grows in Falls Church |url= http://www.metroweekly.com/2007/08/citizen-nick/ |journal= Metro Weekly |location= Washington, D.C. |date= 2007-08-08 |access-date= 2015-03-27 }}
• Pearce, Katie, "Washington Blade Staffers Plan New Venture After Gay Weekly Folds," The Washington Current, Nov. 18, 2009.
• Metro Weekly, Oct. 14, 2010.
• Mansberger, Terry, "LGBT Democrats Earn a Seat at the Party," Falls Church News-Press, Dec. 30, 2010.
• Osborne, William (1986). "Democrats now take LaRouche seriously", San Diego Union, March 23, 1986.
• {{cite web|last= Toporek |first= Bryan |title= The Life and Times of Nicholas F. Benton |website= Georgetown Journalism |publisher= Georgetown University |url= http://journalism.georgetown.edu/benton1.htm |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081017080610/http://journalism.georgetown.edu/benton1.htm |archive-date= 2008-10-17}}

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• [http://nfbenton.com/ Personal website]
• [http://nfbenton.com/?page_id=2 Biography]
• [http://www.bcomminc.com/ Benton Communications, Inc.]
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