Category: Spotlights

• We are back!

  October 16, 2025

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  “Lyrical, charismatic and fiercely political”: Legend of poet Essex Hemphill remains relevant

  September 27, 2022

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  DC-area nonprofit to bring expanded support to LGBTQ+ families

  June 7, 2022

• 30 years in the closet: Life coach lights path to self discovery

  May 3, 2022

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  “I started to see there were other people like me. I’m not alone anymore.”

  April 26, 2022

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  Book of letters and affirmations stem from trans author who needed words of encouragement himself

  February 22, 2022

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  “I wanted to feel alive all the time, not just in therapy.”

  February 15, 2022

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  “I just came out publicly for the first time and you want me to do it again?”

  January 25, 2022

• “I’m not crazy — this is how I felt my whole life.”

  October 1, 2021

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  “I struggled to be OK enough to respond to everybody’s issues since I was drowning in my own.”

  September 17, 2021

• “It felt like my whole body completely betrayed me.”

  September 14, 2021

• “I was lucky to have an older sibling that came out before me.”

  July 6, 2021

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  “I push to educate people and make sure we have a society that’s more accepting for people to come out.”

  June 29, 2021

• “Our relationship has been virtually nonexistent ever since.”

  June 18, 2021

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  Website aims to remember gay bars’ legacies

  June 15, 2021

• Give for a future: Ugandan trans youth initiative seeks visibility and support

  June 1, 2021

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  “What better place to be accepted for who you are than coming out at a pride event?”

  May 10, 2021

• “You gave us a platform to perform.”

  April 26, 2021

• “His main concern was my safety. He didn’t care about my sexuality.”

  April 16, 2021