Get the latest news, events and jobs delivered weekly with the free Our Lives newsletter.
When George Schneider purchased Milwaukee’s This Is It in 2016, with it came more than five decades of history as Wisconsin’s oldest gay bar. As he honors the bar’s past, he’s laying a foundation for its bright future and chosen families. Michail Takach shares the history of this historic gathering place and the man who continues to carry forward the vision of a welcoming space that began in 1968.
Read More
Organizing early LGBTQ rights groups meant facing down institutionalized homophobia, as well as anti-democratic ideas about freedom of speech and association. Historian Dick Wagner shares some of those pioneering efforts to establish non-profits of our own.
Read More
Gary Tipler and Scott Seyforth chronicle the life and historical legacy left by David Runyon, tireless recorder and advocate of the LGBTQ community.
Read More
Madison area native Todd Larson went from the Peace Corps to the United Nations to the Obama Administration, helping pioneer the fight for LGBTQI rights within some of the world’s most complex bureaucracies.
Read More