Editing Debbie Goad (section)

{{Short description|American journalist (1954–2000)}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Debbie Goad
|birth_name=Debra Susan Rosalie
|birth_date=February 13, 1954
|birth_place=[[Coney Island]], [[Brooklyn, New York]], [[United States]]
|death_date={{death date and age|2000|7|20|1954|2|13}}
|death_place=[[Multnomah County, Oregon]], [[United States]]
|occupation=[[Journalist]], [[editor]]
|spouse=[[Jim Goad]]
|relatives=Mitchell Rosalie (brother)
}}

'''Debra Susan "Debbie" Goad''' (February 13, 1954 – July 20, 2000) was an American journalist and assistant editor of the magazine ''[[Answer Me!]]''{{hsp}}<ref name=NYT>{{Cite news| title = Question Put Before Court: Is Magazine Smut or Satire?
| work = [[The New York Times]]| accessdate = 2012-06-11| date = 1995-11-26| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/26/us/question-put-before-court-is-magazine-smut-or-satire.html}}</ref> Her husband, [[Jim Goad]], was the magazine's primary writer and editor. She also contributed to the [[zine]] ''Temp Slave!''

Goad grew up in a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family in the [[Sea Gate, Brooklyn|Sea Gate]] neighborhood of [[Coney Island]] in [[Brooklyn]], meeting Jim Goad while he was living in New Jersey.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=JR |author-link= |date=1999 |title=American Psycho |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&dq=%22Debbie+Goad%22&pg=PA102 |location= |publisher=SPIN |page=102 |isbn=}}</ref> In 1995, Goad and her husband Jim were charged with one felony count of promoting pornography because of offensive content in ''Answer Me!'' magazine, they faced a maximum sentence of five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=ST/> They were found [[Acquittal|not guilty]].<ref name=ST>{{Cite news | last = Bjorhus, Jennifer | title = Not-Guilty Verdict In Bellingham Pornography Trial| work = [[Seattle Times]]| access-date = 2012-06-11| date = 1996-02-02| url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19960202/2312055/not-guilty-verdict-in-bellingham-pornography-trial}}</ref>

Jim and Debbie Goad divorced in 1997, around the same time she was diagnosed with [[ovarian cancer]]. {{Citation needed|date=April 2014}} She died in July 2000, aged 46, from [[ovarian cancer]] in [[Multnomah County, Oregon]]. Her mother had reportedly also died from the same disease and Goad reportedly wished to be cremated, but her brother, Dr. Mitchell Rosalie, a [[physician]] from [[New York City]], was reportedly unable to locate her will and she was interred next to their mother's grave.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}