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Deborah Price (February 27, 1958 –November 20, 2020) better known as Deb Price was an American syndicated columnist who was a pioneer in representing LGBTQ+ issues in mainstream media.

Early life
Price was born as Deborah Jane Price in Lubbock, Texas on February 27, 1958 to Mary Jane (née Caldwell) and Allen Palmer Price. Her father was an episcopal priest and her mother was a receptionist with a law firm. Her early years were spent in Texas and Colarado until her parents divorce when she was 15. She moved with her mother to Bethesda, Maryland, where she attended the National Cathedral School. She started her college at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before transferring to Stanford University for a bachelor's and master's degree in English in 1981.

Career
Price started her career with The Northern Virginia Sun and the news agency States News Service which provided syndicated news coverage of Washington for papers across the country. She went on to join The Washington Post in 1984 as an editor with the national desk.

Her debut column in the The Detroit News in 1992, was the first syndicated national column that spoke about gay life in mainstream media.

Personal life
Price met her partner Joyce Murdoch who was a fellow editor at the national desk of The Washington Post, in 1984. While they became a couple in 1985, they were able to register as domestic partners only in 1993, in Takoma Park, Maryland. They later entered a civil union in Vermont in 2000, and married in Toronto in 2003. Their wedding announcement was the first same-sex wedding announcement on The Washington Post's weddings page. Until then, the paper had published its same-sex union messages in a page titled 'celebrations' instead of the weddings page. This publishing was considered to be the first same-sex wedding announcement in a major national newspaper.

Price died on November 20, 2020 from Interstitial pneumonitis in a hospital in Hong Kong. She was 62.