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Former U.S. Army Colonel Sheri Swokowski returns to Our Lives to share analysis and perspective on the recent executive order dismissing current trans service members from the military and banning entry to trans folks in the future and connects it to the broader anti-trans movement.
As we saw with Twin Cities Pride declining Target’s corporate sponsorship, Pride orgs must face the new reality where grassroots funding may not only be more sustainable but also better aligned with the origins and spirit of Pride.
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.
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.
Madison Psychologist E. G. Meier and ally Sarah Canon co-created trans community dinners at their church in the hope of building safe space and community. The dinners have achieved all that and more.
Madison’s Center for Community Healing offers counseling services for LGBTQ+ people by LGBTQ+ people.
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.
On March 6, the Wisconsin Legislature Committee on Education held public hearings, again, because Republican lawmakers, again, have re-introduced two bills aimed at trans students. After a very brief introduction and a few clarification questions on Assembly Bill 101,...
This Is It!, Wisconsin’s oldest gay bar and vital LGBTQ community space, closed abruptly on March 9.
A round-up of administrative and legislative attacks on the queer community during Trump’s first months back in office.
Oct. 20, 1971 – Jan. 8, 2025
Garth William Wangemann was born in Sheboygan on December 26, 1955. He graduated from Sheboygan South High School in 1974. After high school, he went to UW-Sheboygan, then transferred to UW-Milwaukee where he met Roy Badger, his friend, his love, his partner, and his...
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