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Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is an author and political commentator. She also hosts a syndicated talk radio show, in the United States. She is described on her website as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist". Bruce is a self-described classical liberal. Bruce hosts The Tammy Bruce Show, a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. The show broadcasts six days a week, including Saturdays. Each episode is three hours long. For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1990 to 1996, the longest continuous tenure in the chapter's 30-year history. She mobilized activists locally and nationally on a whole range of issues, including women's image in media, child care, health care, violence against women, economics, and domestic violence. She also served two years on the board of directors for NOW, which she heavily criticizes in her last book. During the early '90s she spearheaded the campaign to bring awareness to the sexualized violence in the book American Psycho by calling for a boycott of all other books published by Knopf for one year. At 17 years old, Bruce was romantically involved with Days of our Lives star Brenda Benet. In an interview on C-SPAN's BookTV, Bruce said that Benet shot herself in the head while in the bathroom of Bruce's residence. Bruce holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California. She notes on her website that her interest in politics and individual liberty was sparked during her childhood in part because of the work of authors Ray Bradbury and George Orwell, both of whom remain her favorite writers.
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