Survival Guide
Kyanna Kramer shares her experience of coming to terms with her identity—and the adversity she faced and overcame—in the hope that her story can help others.
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PEOPLE OF COLOR 
American Studies, Queered
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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Midwest Princess
Jeilanna Josii overcame isms and poverty to become a well-known drag queen performing to crowds of tens of thousands. Here’s her story.
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Empowering & Trusting Youth
Director of Youth Programming at GSAFE Yanté Turner created an LTI workshop for white queer and trans youth to talk about white supremacy and Black and brown liberation, leading this Black, trans abolitionist organizer to full-time work with the organization.
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Things Need to Change
Kitty Steward-Trivedi is a disabled, queer, biracial high school student who wanted to attend a summer program at UW-Madison. Kitty was initially accepted, then disenrolled. Rather than go away quietly, Kitty took a stand.
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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.
Chandler House Bakery
Love is the first ingredient in everything this bakery makes.
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.
Giant Jones Brewing hosting a multi-day trans day of visibility celebration featuring trans, nonbinary, and LGBTQI+ businesses and artists
Madison, WI – Giant Jones Brewing is hosting a Transgender Day of Visibility Celebration on...
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.
Dancer Cooper Clack on Broadway’s “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical,” coming to Overture March 18-23
You’re in the cast of A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical.” Tell our readers why people...
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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.
Destination: Home
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.
When the Professional is Personal
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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Health & Families
Don’t Let Anyone Steal your Future
After suffering homophobic abuse at school for years, Jamie Nabozny filed a landmark lawsuit that changed American legal history.
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.
Trans Students Under Attack in the State Legislature—Again
On March 6, the Wisconsin Legislature Committee on Education held public hearings, again, because...
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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