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The Fight Over Title IX

An increasing number of Wisconsin school districts are creating Title IX violations that threaten safety, well-being, and survival of trans youth. Fair Wisconsin and GSAFE are taking action.

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Rutabaga - Summer
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The Universe of Things

Expert woodworker Sylvie Rosenthal’s Lower Astronomy Studios offers furnishings and forms crafted with technical expertise, aesthetic beauty, and conceptual depth.

From Passion Project to Preservation Powerhouse

Don Schwamb, founding father of the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, has retired after 30 years of leadership. We sat down with him to understand the history behind the Project, where it’s been, and where it’s going in the decades ahead.

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Safe Providers

The LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin is leading the effort to connect the transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse communities with affirming health-centered resources across Wisconsin.

Safe Providers

The LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin is leading the effort to connect the transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse communities with affirming health-centered resources across Wisconsin.

From Passion Project to Preservation Powerhouse

Don Schwamb, founding father of the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, has retired after 30 years of leadership. We sat down with him to understand the history behind the Project, where it’s been, and where it’s going in the decades ahead.

To the Point

Point Pride founder Ryan Goszkowicz shares details about this year’s event in Stevens Point.

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Rutabaga - Summer
Rutabaga - Summer
Rutabaga - Summer
Rutabaga - Summer

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Food & Dining

Flour Girl and Flame

In West Allis, Dana Spandet serves up pizza pies sourced from Wisconsin ingredients crafted by an all-woman staff. But her mission and vision is not just about good, locally sourced food; it’s about community, too.

Dinotto was Meant to Be

Dino Maniaci opens an Italian deli that shares a kitchen with his restaurant, D’Vino, filling a vacancy in downtown Madison.

Delta Means Change

Delta Beer Lab has done their best to take the high road, as economic pressures challenge business to find a new way,
by making changes that still serve their mission and values.

Cash & Olive’s Pub

Jen O’Branovich and Courtney Sargent of Millie’s Coffee & Eatery in Cambridge have traded in the sunny space they formerly occupied in Galleria 214 to expand into a more Sconnie-style environment outside the main drag.

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Arts & Entertainment

The Universe of Things

Expert woodworker Sylvie Rosenthal’s Lower Astronomy Studios offers furnishings and forms crafted with technical expertise, aesthetic beauty, and conceptual depth.

Vulnerability & Strength

Mixed media artist LaNia Sproles explores relationships through playful and provocative portraits that express intimacy and hope.

Cleaning Up in Chippewa Falls

Tony Liedl and Kevin Brylski are blending Wisconsin cultural expressions like “You betcha” with LGBTQ visibility via their Chippewa Valley soap business, Ope! It’s Soap.

Small Town Big Gays

Eau Claire’s Travis Gorell and Chance Smith host a queer podcast that highlights queer joy in smaller cities and small-town America, and they would love to hear from you!

Connecting to Community through Music

Opera singer Lauren Decker has sung at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, but she’s finding her happy place in much smaller, more personal venues in her hometown where she can bring her fine art to people who might otherwise find it inaccessible.

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Home & Garden

Hard Work

Crossroads Community Farm organic farmer Cassie Wyss talks about becoming a farmer and a member of the LGBTQ community later in life.

Choosing a New Neighborhood

Vivienne Andersen, a full-time REALTOR® for more than a decade, looks at ways that LGBTQ people assess safety when deciding where to buy a home.

A Rural Oasis

Princeton-raised Matthew Trotter is building a purposefully curated ecosystem that both lifts up his home town’s history and celebrates a queerer version of up-north culture.

A Secret Worth Sharing

A 25-year exercise in spontaneity and experimentation transformed a neglected property into an eclectic eden.

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Health & Families

The Progressive & Intersectional Response to Trump

To platform the intersectionality of progressive activism, Our Lives board members interviewed community leaders on race and immigration, reproductive and gender justice, housing, and education in the current political climate.

The Clinicians that We Need

Madison’s Center for Community Healing offers counseling services for LGBTQ+ people by LGBTQ+ people.

Protecting Yourself & Your Family as We Move Into 2025

If you are concerned about the safety of your marriage, parental rights, and/or immigration status, Michele L. Perreault of DeWitt LLP offers some reassurance and notes of caution for these legal protections as Trump and his allies take office.

Safe Providers

The LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin is leading the effort to connect the transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse communities with affirming health-centered resources across Wisconsin.

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