Darren Spedale

Darren Spedale is an entrepreneur and author. He founded StartOut, an organization supporting LGBT entrepreneurs. He also founded Family by Design, a website supporting parenting partnerships.

He attended Duke University.

He is co-author with William Eskridge of Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse?, which was published by the Oxford University Press in 2006.

In December 2013 and again in March 2019, Business Insider named Spedale one of the "Most Important Gay People in Tech".