Jeff Weinstein

Jeff Weinstein (born September 8, 1947) In 1982, he helped negotiate a Voice union contract that extended health insurance and other benefits, which the newspaper already provided to married couples and, as a matter of practice, to unmarried heterosexual couples, to same-sex couples. The agreement was the second union contract in the United States, the first by a private company, and the first to be widely reported on, to offer same-sex couples these protections.

Early life and education Weinstein was born and raised in New York City. Career Weinstein was hired to write restaurant reviews for the San Diego Reader when he was 25 years old, in 1972. and the novella Life in San Diego, which was published by Sun & Moon Press in 1983,

After he moved back to New York, Weinstein worked as a restaurant critic for the SoHo Weekly News and later joined the Village Voice as both a restaurant critic and as Senior Editor, overseeing pieces about visual art and architecture. As a food critic, Weinstein is known for his uncommon prose style and perspective, his interest in covering a variety of restaurants in their own particular cultural and socioeconomic contexts, and his “roving intellectual appetite.”

Weinstein collected his Village Voice restaurant column, “Eating Around,” into a book, Learning to Eat, which Sun & Moon Press published in 1988.

From 1997 to 2006, he was columnist and fine arts editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He subsequently served as arts and culture editor for Bloomberg News,

Personal life Weinstein was partnered with the writer, critic and artist John Perreault from 1976 until Perreault's death in 2015. The couple married in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 2008. Weinstein has been partnered with the writer and critic Daniel Felsenthal, and in Bellport, Long Island. They are now married.