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Education 

West Albany High School-1983
LBI/Trinity College-Certificate of Biblical Studies-1985

Seattle Pacific University-Major in Communications/Minor Business Admin. 1999
Seattle Pacific University-MFA Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) 2011

Career Highlights

Washington State Attorney General's Office Consumer & Businesses Fair Practices Division
-Claims Representative, Investigative Assistant

Grayline of Alaska/Westours/Holland America Outfitters Guide, Motorcoach Operator

Trucking

Schneider National
Stevens Transport
Boulevard Excavation
Puget Sound Transfer
Ludtke Pacific
Peirone Produce
David Hannah Transport
McCain Transport
Howell International
Interstate Distribution Company
Able Systems
Co-Owner High Mountain Ranch and Transportation

 Trucking and Air Freight, Single, Double Screw Tractors, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 18 speed transmissions, Solo and Team Operation, Trainer, Pulled Haz Matt, Frozen, Dry, and Perishable Freight. Specialized in Custom Critical-“On Demand Air Freight” utilizing 48, 53 ft Dry Vans, Refers, Doubles, Triples, Rocky Mountain Doubles, A Trains, B Trains, Heavy Haul, Flatbed, Curtain Van. Operated in 48 States , Canada , and Alaska , but primarily in the rugged Mountains of the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada

Air Freight

Airpac Airlines, Airborne Express, BAX Global, UPS 1998-2002 Night Operations Manager. Charter co-ordinator. Contingency Management.

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Publications-Articles in Print

Cite Guide Magazine- July 1986 –Layout

Guide Magazine -June 1987 ~A Trail Guide To Mt Si Guide Magazine- September 1989 ~Labor Day (Featured on Cover Shot)

Guide Magazine- December 1989 ~Holidays for the Gay! (Featured on Cover ~Crosstalk: Minimizing Fallout From Direct Action Groups

Guide Magazine- January 1990 ~Building Ourselves Out of Paradise-Tim Anderson Examines the Effects of Urban Growt ~Crosstalk: Discrimination in Gay and Lesbian Businesses

Guide Magazine -February 1990 ~On the Road: A Valentine ~Imperial Court News :Glenda The Good Witch~A Chat with Larry Lefler ~Crosstalk: Gay/Lesbian Support for Gay Lesbian Good Works?

Guide Magazine- March 1990 ~A Short Walk in the Enchantments~ Hiking in the Cascades ~Tips for Gay Travelors Abroad~An Interview with Ron Wigland ~Doing the “Right Thing”~A Disease of the 90's?

Guide Magazine -April 1990 ~No Bloody Reason: An Interview with Nancy Campbell Executive Director Northwest AIDS Foundation ~Crosstalk~ The Controversy Over the First Openly Gay Episcopal Priest

Guide Magazine -May 1990 ~Roughing It-The Essentials ~Emerald City Gay League Softball-A Field of Screams

Guide Magazine -June 1990 ~Spandex: An Adventure in Swimwear Guide Magazine- July 1990 ~Driving Tips from a Road Pro

Guide Magazine -August 1990 ~Out in Africa ~An Interview with David Murphy ~Behind the Scenes at Celebration 90 Gay Games III~A Chat with Marc Mees & Richard Peterson Guide Magazine – September 1990 ~A Visit to Club God or, The Quest for the Body Heavenly ~Thank You Vancouver ! Looking Back on Gay Games III


Guide Magazine -October 1990 ~An Officer and a Gentlewoman ~Crosstalk~Does Queer Nation and ACT UP represent most gays?

Guide Magazine -November 1990 ~Climb Every Mountain-Changing the Face of the Ski Industry ~And Baby Makes Six Part I~An Interview with Birth Mother Tiffany Nelson and partner Carol Sterling

Guide Magazine- December 1990 ~The Perfect Tree ~Crosstalk: The Status of Women in the Gay Community ~And Baby Makes Six Part II~An Interview with birth mother Tiffany Nelson's Best Friend and Roomate Kelly Cassidy

Guide Magazine -January 1991 ~Totally Me~Tim Anderson Embarks on a Fashion Catastrophe ~And Baby Makes Six Part III~An Interview with daughter Katy Sterling

Guide Magazine -February 1991 ~First Love-A Mid Winter Tale ~And Baby Makes Six Part IV~An Interview with Father Jim Baum

Guide Magazine- March 1991 ~Passing Through, Tales of the Open Road ~Crosstalk:Reflecting on Gulf War Protests Guide Magazine -April 1991 ~Passing Through: The Forgotten Sections of L A

Frontiers Magazine -October 11, 1991 ~When Baby Makes Six
*Note: This piece later became the background material for the Salley Jesse Raphael Show “Three Gays and a Baby”-one of the worst examples of shock daytime television of its era. No further journalistic work until January of 1998 when became regularly featured writer on www.ruralgay.com.

The Inlander -February 19, 2004 ~It's Your Mountain: A Profile of Ski Resort 49 Degrees N.

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere- September 2005 ~ Individualism vs. Community

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere- October 2005 ~ Accidental Sex Therapist?

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere-  November 2005 ~ Just As Andy Was

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - December 2005 ~ Climate Control

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - January 2006 ~ Time for Cowboy Love

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - February 2006 ~ Gays Aren't One-Size-Fits-All

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - March 2006 ~ I Want to Tell You Something

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - April 2006 ~ Comfortable Shoes

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - May 2006 ~ Family Values OUT on the  Prairie

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - June 2006 ~ Father's Day and Christopher Zilar

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - July 2006 ~ Unlikely Longtime Companion

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - August 2006 ~ Coming Out in the Middle of the Universe?

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - September 2006 ~ A Natural Guardian

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - October 2006 ~ Send Out the Clowns

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - November 2006 ~ Striking Gold

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - December 2006 ~ The Toilet Brush Christmas Tree

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - March 7, 2007 ~ Cody: Part one of three.

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - March 21, 2007 ~ Cody: Part two of three.

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - April 4, 2007 ~ Cody: Part three of three.

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - May 2, 2007 ~ Outlasting OUT In the Middle of Nowhere

Stonewall News Northwest: Out! In the Middle of Nowhere - December 12, 2007 ~ The Outage

Literary Work

Second Essence- (2000) “Clearcut” Published in anthology by Seattle Pacific University .

Bend Don't Shatter, Poets on the Beginning of Desire (2004) “I Think You Got Me Confused” Published by Red Rattle Books, Soft Skull Press.

Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction By Working Class Men About More or Less Gay Life (2005) “Hooters Tooters and the Big Dog” Published by Suspects Thoughts Press.

Who Invited You? (August 2011) Seattle Pacific University Thesis Masters of Fine Arts; Creative Non Fiction

Archipelago (August 2011) Foreword By Brett Lott, Edited by David Jacobsen, published by Lulu Publishing.

OnLine Literary Work

www.Highmountainranch.com Including Ezine “Meanwhile Back at the Ranch”, “Witnesses from the Circle”, Rodeo Princess, Tim's Tales from the Road Over 20 million hits and counting, supported by various contributing writers, photographers and IGRA/PWRCA cowboys. See also Web Honors… Actively published 1998-2005

www.Crotalus.com Published 1999-2002

www.Ruralgay.com Published 1998-2003

Online Book Projects

Graced By Amazing Published Winter 2004. The first installment of the road trilogy detailing rural gay America , the trucking industry and life among the working class.

*Hooters Tooters and the Big Dog featured in the anthology Everything I Have is Blue.

**“Bodacious”, “Northern Exposure”, “Friendly Fire”, “Knocking on Rubber”, Studio 54”  excerpted on NPR affiliate KPBX Art A La Carte available worldwide feeds.

Someday I'd Like to See That Published Fall 2004. The second installment of the road trilogy including some of Tim's more acclaimed writing exploring themes of loss, economic challenge, and the draw of perpetual motion. This work included two never before posted offerings, “Crazy People Don't Say Please” and “The Opposite of Everything Is True”.

***”Seeing Red" excerpted on NPR affiliate KPBX Art A La Carte available worldwide feeds.

Tremendously Wonderful. (Unreleased) The final offering for the Road Triology. Includes two never before posted essays.

Making News

Guide Magazine- September 1989 “Being Gay in a Straight Workplace” by Karen Taylor

(The publisher actually gave "Tim" a pseudonym, “Dan”, for this article-they were so worried he'd get beat up on the road…Looking back it seems somewhat silly but that was a far different time in America and every article I penned for this publication from that time forward I insisted would use my real name … I believe I was the first openly gay trucker in the country who was willing to use his real name in print.)

Just Out Magazine, September 1991 “ Burns Brothers Kicks Out OCA”-News Article “ ~Gay trucker Tim Anderson encounters Oregon Citizen's Alliance at Burns Brothers Truckstop sponsored autoshow, OCA removed from premises and banned…”

Driveline: The Official Newsletter of the Kenworth Drivers' Board Spring 1994 ~ Tim Anderson's Quick Thinking Saves Partner's Life

OUT Magazine June 1998, “Signorile In America -The Truck Stops Here” by Michelangelo Signorile.

National Gay News Syndicate June 1998 “Rural Gays Hold First Annual Gatherings” by Rich Keefe.

Los Angeles Times March 14, 1999 "Rural Life Can Be Lonely, and Risky for Gays" by Julie Cart and Edith Stanley *

The Dallas Morning News May 16, 1999 "Out in the Country: More gays and lesbians are feeling at home away from the big cities. By Michael Precker. *

Sacramento Bee June 1, 1999 "Many Gays are opting for a country lifestyle: Trend reflects key changes in society. By Robert D Davila *

Tower Group International December 1999 "Monthly Operations Report and Market Forecast

Waffle Ranch Records November 16, 2001 "Trucker and writer Timothy Anderson is inspiration behind Anne Minnery's trucking song "One More Mile To Christmas"

Truck News June 2001, “The Love Not Spoken Of” by Harry Rudolph

Xtra Magazine November 2001, “The World of Gay Truckers-Calling Someone a “Good Buddy” Can Get You Punched in the Mouth…” by Harry Rudolphs.

Roadstaronline.com, May 2002 “Website of the month, Tim's Trucking Tales” by Debrah Lockridge.

Seattle Post Intelligencer June 6, 2002 , “Remarkable Trails Probe the Blast From Mount St. Helens Past” by Kevin Ebi.

Overdrive Magazine September 2002, “She Looked Clean” by Caroyln Magner.

The Advocate , December, 24, 2002 “Gay Voices For Rural America ” by Jay Blotcher. A profile of the Witnesses from the Circle Project

Advocate.com, December, 24, 2002 “A New Website Spotlights Gays Leading Unconventional Lives.” by Jay Blotcher

Blue Stone Press January 2003, “ Coping With Cabin Fever” by Jay Blotcher

Nashville Scene July 16, 2003 “ Over and Out-The Gay Truckers Association Spends A Weekend in Nashville ” by John Spragens.

eTrucker.com August, 5 2003 “Trucking Headlines: Gay Truckers Hold Organizational Meeting” by Jill Dunn

eTrucker.com January 9, 2004 Trucking Headlines: CB Language Research Included in Textbook” by Jill Dunn

TruckNet Driver RoundTable Forums January 9, 2004 16 Page Study Researching CB Language Is Now a Chapter in a College Intercultural Communication Textbook.

Overdrive Magazine March 2004, “Channel 19- Truck and Cluck: CB Science” by Max Heine.

eTrucker-Overdrive Magazine March 2004 “Overdrive Channel 19-Quirky Industry Happenings, Etrucker wire.

The Miner, January, 2005 “ Saddle Mountain Resort Finds Petitioners Anything But Neighborly” by Bob
Smith

Hitting Hard 2005 republication of "The Truck Stops Here" included in book by Michelangelo Signorile

Southern Voice/SOVO.com , June 11, 2005 "Action! Alert. Out on the Road" by Van Gower

Washington Blade/Washingtonblade.com , August 12, 2005 "On the Open Road: Gay Truck Drivers Find Freedom and Acceptance in Rugged Industry" by Ryan Lee

Southern Voice/SOVO.com , August 12, 2005 "Loneliness, Love and Lust on the Open Road" by Ryan Lee

Stonewall News Northwest , September 2005 Review: Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working Class Men about More or Less Gay Life. by Christopher Lawrence and Graham Ames

The Advocate/Advocate.com , February 12, 2006 Letters: No Excuses for West: Savage Analysis

The Advocate/Advocate.com , May 11, 2006 Letters: "The Next Brokeback"

American Public Health Association Washington DC National Convention (Oct/Nov 2007) Exhibitor representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go

Stonewall News Northwest: GLBTQ Community Responds to CPR Outreach, March 7, 2007 by Joyce Crosby

OUT,  March 2008  The Road Less Traveled: The Dangerous Confused World of Gay Truckers By Bett Williams

POZ, March 2008, The Long Haul By Mark Leydorf

Pride Foundation; Living With Pride, Spring 2008, Living Where We Want: Rural Areas See Big Increase in Same Sex Couples.


American Public Health Association San Diego CA National Convention (Nov 2008) Exhibitor representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go


American Public Health Association Philedelphia PA National Convention (Nov 2009) Peer reviewed presenter representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go : Panelist: American Public Health Education and Health Promotion November 2009, Health Promotion in the Transportation Industry: Challenges in Assessment and Outreach in a Mobile Workplace

American Public Health Association Philedelphia PA National Convention (Nov 2009) Peer reviewed presentor representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go : Guest Speaker: NIOSH, Worksite Safety Committee: Health Disparities Among Nation's Long Haul Truckers.

National Public Radio/KPBX/ All Things Considered (Nov 2009) Agency Addresses Health Disparities among nation's truckers.

* These articles refers to www.ruralgay.com   a site Anderson contributed to for several years and which helped foster rural gay identity and general awareness cited throughout national media.

Giving Back

~Honorary Page, Oregon State Legislature 1983

~Seaman's Ministry, Merchant Marine Outreach 1983-1985

~Volunteer Special People's “Christmas Cruise with Santa”- Lake Washington Dec 1990

~Chicken Soup Brigade-Farmers and Truckers Fresh Produce Donation Project, Coordinator December 1990-August 1992

~Pride Foundation Volunteer 1989-1991
~“From All Walks of Life”, AIDS Walk-Northwest AIDS Foundation, Head of Transportation Logistics 1990

~ “Take To the Streets Against AIDS Walk”, Northwest AIDS Foundation, Head of Transportation Logistics 1991

~Names Project Quilt-Volunteer Truck Driver-Seattle Washington / San Francisco , Ca Display, Nov. 1991

~Spokane AIDS Network-Farmers and Truckers Fresh Produce Donation Coordinator 1992

~King County AIDS Prevention Project-Mobile I-5 Corridor Sex Work/MSM Population Outreach Volunteer 1990-1992

~Spokane AIDS Network Volunteer 1992-93 ~Trucker Buddies International 1992-1998

~Kenworth Drivers Board Member-Six year member 1992-98

~Former Member of Overdrive Drivers Roundtable

~Former Member of OOIDA (Owner Operators and Independent Drivers Association)

~Trucker Buddy International 1992-1998

~Former Member of ARGRA ( Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association)

~Host Ruralgay gatherings at High Mountain Ranch 1996-2004 attended by hundreds of lesbian, bi, gay and supportive straight folk. Performers included Mark Weigle, Doug and Kim Bonds, Kevin Varner, Jeanette Hill & Scotty Baker.

~Vice President of Media Relations-Gay Truckers Association July 2003-March 2004

~Pleasant View Road Association-President 2004-2005

~President Gay Truckers Association March 2003-Present

~Coordinator of Witnesses From the Circle , Gay Story Circle Project. December 2002-Present

~Volunteer Project Development Officer, Spokane Regional Health District, Trucker HIV Prevention Project. September 2004- Present

Web Awards 

~Cross Trucking Award For Excellence

~SMClickster Award For Excellence

~Roadstar Website of the Month May 2002

~KW Flatbed Top Site List ( High Mountain Ranch enjoyed Top Ten Listing of most popular trucking websites in the world)

~Formerly featured regularly on www.crotalus.com; cowboy central; ruralgay. Sites now dormant.

Radio Commentary 

“Bodacious” KPBX, NPR Affiliate. Art A La Carte Show. 2000.

“Northern Exposure” KPBX, NPR Affiliate. Art A La Carte Show. 2001.

“Seeing Red” KPBX, NPR Affiliate. Art A La Carte Show. 2000.

“Friendly Fire” KPBX NPR Affiliate. Art A La Carte Show. 2001.

“Knocking on Rubber” KPBX Affiliate. Art A La Carte Show. 2001.

“Studio 54” KPBX Affiliate. Art A La Carte Show. 2000.

“Drive Through This” PRI/NPR Affiliates Worldwide. Outright Radio. May 2003.

Radio Interviews 

www.gaybc.com Dr Strangelove Show, Rural and Gay 2001.

KIRO Radio Back to Business as Normal at Boeing Field Following the Nisqually Quake, March 2001, Kevin Ebi.

Sirius Satellite Radio John McMullen Show January 7, 2003

Sirius Satellite Radio Out Q Michelangelo Signorile Show, April 2003

KOMO Radio Truckers Prepare for New Hours of Service Regulations, January 2004, John Boril.

Radio Awards

~Excerpts from the Essay “Bodacious” broadcast on the Art A La Carte program nominated by KPBX NPR affiliate for a “PREN-D” Public Radio News Directors Award 2000.

~“Drive Through This” selected and aired on PRI's (Public Radio International) award winning program Outright Radio. May 2003.

Academic Work

~Trucker CB Language Study. Seattle Pacific University . 1999-2003.
See Published Academic Work.

~Trucker Mobility Project. Arizona State University . Pilot Study 2001

~Trucker Community Health Project. Consultant. Emory University/NIH 2002-2005.

~Host/Support Berkley Haas Scholarship recipient Gregory Hughes, Summer 2003 Research project on Rural Gay Identity

~Health2Go Spokane Regional Health District 2002-Present

Published Peer Reviewed Academic Work

Communicating Cultural and Ethnic Identity. (2004) “The Chicken Haulers and the Highliners-C B Talk Amongst Interstate Truckers. Rowman and Littlefield. Co Authored with Dr. Debra Sequiera.

Health2Go Trucker Health Project. (2007) Health To Go Assessment.Spokane Regional Health Department. Ethnographer and co-author.

American Public Health Education and Health Promotion (November 2009), Presenter at American Public Health Association National Convention Health Promotion in the Transportation Industry: Challenges in Assessment and Outreach in a Mobile Workplace


Who Invited You? (August 2011) Seattle Pacific University

Controversial Press Coverage of Projects Tim's Been Involved With 

Traditional Values Coalition October 2003 Issues: TVC Response Letter to Congress Wavman on NIH Grants

Traditional Values Coalition October 2003 Press Releases: Coalition Charges NIH "ATM for Grant Traffickers"

Traditional Values Coalition October 2003 Special Report: How Has the National Institutes of Health (NIH) been using Federal Tax Dollars?

Washington Post October 30 2003 by Rick Weiss Issues: NIH Faces Criticism on Grants Coalition Assails Smarmy Projects

Associated Press October 2003 by Mark Sherman, Conservatives target studies of AIDS, Sex.

Gay.com/Planet Out.com October 2003 by Eric Johnston, Probe Alarms AIDS, sex researchers

Crosswalk.com October 2003 by Jeff Johnson Congressman Defends Tax Funded Study on Truck Stop Hookers

Overdrive Magazine November 2003 by Jill Dunn Sex Habits Study Targets Truckers

New York Times November 3, 2003 by Bob Herbert, The Big Chill at the Lab

Atlanta Journal Constitution November 2, 2003 by David Wahlberg U. S.-paid research place under Moral Microscope. Lists recall Golden Fleece Awards of the 80's.

Agape Press, December 12, 2003 by Bill Fancher and Jenni Parker Congressman Calls for Full Investigation of Research Fraud in AIDS Prevention Study

Ruralgay.com January 2004 by David Knudsen National Institutes of Health Studies Truckers

Gay.com/PlanetOut.com January 14, 2004 by Patrick Letellier Federal Probe of AIDS, sex research ends

eTrucker.com January 29, 2004, by Jill Dunn Trucking Headlines: NIH Trucker Study remains political hot potato

Landline Magazine December 2003/January 2004 by Dick Larsen A Razzberry to the National Institutes of Health

The New York Times December 12, 2004 by Frank Rich, The Plot Against Sex in America

Landline , March/April 2004 Save it for the Playboy Channel: Lawmakers, others say trucker sex habits study a waste of moeny

Discover , August 2004 by Barry Yeoman Forbidden Science

OUT, March 2008 The Road Less Traveled: The Dangerous Confused World of Gay Truckers   By Bett Williams

POZ, March 2008, The Long Haul By Mark Leydorf

Pride Foundation; Living With Pride, Spring 2008, Living Where We Want: Rural Areas See Big Increase in Same Sex Couples.

American Public Health Association San Diego CA National Convention (Nov 2008) Exhibitor representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go


American Public Health Association Philedelphia PA National Convention (Nov 2009) Peer reviewed presenter representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go : Panelist: American Public Health Education and Health Promotion November 2009, Health Promotion in the Transportation Industry: Challenges in Assessment and Outreach in a Mobile Workplace

American Public Health Association Philedelphia PA National Convention (Nov 2009) Peer reviewed presentor representing Spokane Regional Health District  (SHRD) Health2Go : Guest Speaker: NIOSH, Worksite Safety Committee: Health Disparities Among Nation's Long Haul Truckers.

National Public Radio/KPBX/ All Things Considered (Nov 2009) Agency Addresses Health Disparities among nation's truckers.

MSNBC.com December 2009 Regional Health Agency Seeks to Offer Health Screenings