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The rushed false claims that the shooter was transgender illustrate both blatant and covert transphobia while also creating a dangerous false equivalency around mental illness and transness.
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We’ve compiled a list of churches, congregations, and spiritual communities that have visibly identified themselves as open and affirming to LGBTQ people. An open and affirming congregation is accepting of you as you are, and it validates you, your life, and your relationships.
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UW Professor Ramzi Fawaz explores the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements in the modern United States, specifically how books, film, and visual media give voice to the marginalized.
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Paul Baker Prindle, prodigal son of Madison’s fine arts scene, returns to take the helm of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
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StageQ’s 2024–25 season promises to entertain and even push some boundaries.
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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.
Love is the first ingredient in everything this bakery makes.
Dino Maniaci opens an Italian deli that shares a kitchen with his restaurant, D’Vino, filling a vacancy in downtown Madison.
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.
Madison, WI – Giant Jones Brewing is hosting a Transgender Day of Visibility Celebration on...
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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Expert woodworker Sylvie Rosenthal’s Lower Astronomy Studios offers furnishings and forms crafted with technical expertise, aesthetic beauty, and conceptual depth.
Mixed media artist LaNia Sproles explores relationships through playful and provocative portraits that express intimacy and hope.
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.
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!
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.
You’re in the cast of A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical.” Tell our readers why people...
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Crossroads Community Farm organic farmer Cassie Wyss talks about becoming a farmer and a member of the LGBTQ community later in life.
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.
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 25-year exercise in spontaneity and experimentation transformed a neglected property into an eclectic eden.
Bicontinental Madisonian Gregg Potter unpacks his evolving sense of home, from the open door policies of his childhood, to the LGBTQ+ interchange he’s hosting in South Africa.
Bill Beaudreau’s path to interior designing and small business ownership was paved with a clear sense of calling and an opaque professional persona. Gradually, he has begun to share more of his whole self.
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After suffering homophobic abuse at school for years, Jamie Nabozny filed a landmark lawsuit that changed American legal history.
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.
Madison’s Center for Community Healing offers counseling services for LGBTQ+ people by LGBTQ+ people.
On March 6, the Wisconsin Legislature Committee on Education held public hearings, again, because...
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.
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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