WILLIAM CHARLES SIROTY M.D., was born on this date. A graduate of Oceanside, NY High School, he received his BS from Stony Brook University, and MD at Georgetown University.

In 1975, He was a co-founder of Gay People in Medicine, the first national LGBTQ physician advocacy group.

Most recently, he was Chief of Medicine at the Manchester, NH, VA Medical Center. He was a 20-year board member of ACLU of New Hampshire, a Bill Bradley delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and a Howard Dean delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

When the right-wing Union Leader, with a little help from Richard Nixon’s dirty tricksters, destroyed Edmund Muskie’s candidacy by attacking Muskie’s wife, and then dubiously claiming that he had cried at a rally outside the paper’s offices. The media isolation that made it possible for the Union Leader to own that moment is as much a part of the past as the factories that used to dot the New Hampshire hillsides. 

Which got Bill Siroty his start as a media activist during the 2000 Presidential campaign, when he was a Bill Bradley supporter. He started putting together Bradley articles for a few of his fellow campaign volunteers, and “it sort of mushroomed from there.”

After March, when Bradley’s campaign folded,  Siroty’s “Links” website evolved into an e-mail for supporters of Al Gore and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald (who ended up losing to Republican Craig Benson in 2002).

It was around this time that Siroty began dropping off printouts for radio talk-show host Deborah “Arnie” Arnesen, a veteran Democratic activist and onetime candidate for governor. He continued to clip a few pieces just for Arnesen, who is now heard on WKXL Radio, in Concord, and in the Boston area on WPLM (AM 1390). “You know how you can have your own personal shopper? I’ve got my own personal Bill,” Arnesen jokes. “The Internet has really transformed who the gatekeepers are. It used to be Time and Newsweek that pulled the stories together. Now he’s doing the equivalent of that.” 

Siroty died on July 24, 2026 and is survived by his husband, Bill Stelling.