WASHINGTON – LGBTQ+ Victory Institute announces that Jonathan Capehart, host of MSNBC’s “The Weekend” and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will moderate a discussion on the LGBTQ+ political movement at the 41st annual International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington, DC.
Capehart is a longtime host, political analyst and journalist and will be moderating a discussion with Minnesota State Representative Leigh Finke and San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, with other panelists to be announced.
Learn more about Mr. Capehart in his bio below, and visit our conference webpage to get your tickets.
A longtime MS NOW host, he also serves as a political analyst on “PBS NewsHour” and is featured on the popular Friday segment, “Brooks and Capehart.”
Capehart has also hosted several MSNBC specials. In 2021, his MSNBC special “A Promised Land: A Conversation with Barack Obama” was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis. Additional specials include the “Pride of Stage and Screen” and “Pride of the White House,” the latter earning him a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism—Long Form in 2022.
Capehart was the deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News (2002 to 2004) and served on its editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his editorial campaign to save the Apollo Theater earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Capehart left the Daily News in July 2000 to become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News, and took leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his first successful campaign for New York City Mayor. Capehart was also previously an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post.
His memoir, “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home,” was published by Twelve Books in 2025.
