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November 2025
Finding an Escape One Cup at a Time
Get the full experience by eating in at Oasis Cafe in Fitchburg, where you will feel the love from the staff to the atmosphere to the food and drinks themselves.
Madison Area Faith Directory
If your church or community is not on this list, be sure and complete the form at ourliveswisconsin.com/madison-area-lgbtq-faith-directory so we can include it next year!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Dr. Rich Merrion
DC, Chiropractor | New Health Chiropractic & Integrated Healthcare I worked in the environmental industry for 11 years, but ultimately decided that I wasn’t helping people enough, which is really what’s at the heart of what I like to do in my life. So, I went back...
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Dr. Elaina Meier
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC, NCC | Integrated Counseling I started my practice with a simple but radical idea: To create a space for people who were being targeted by society, a space where it was okay to be stressed out. “Community serving community”...
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Out of State
Particularly within large institutions, finding a provider who is knowledgeable about the specific health needs of queer people can be overwhelming and frustrating at times. So when you set out to find an LGBTQ-Affirming provider that feels like a good fit for you,...
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Mental Health
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Other Specialties
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Physical Therapy
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Message Therapy
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Chiropractic
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Hospital-Affiliated Primary Care
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Direct Primary Care
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: Health Centers
Finding LGBTQ-affirming healthcare providers and services can be a difficult and intimidating task. Below, you will find a list of some of the state’s providers who self-identify as intentionally safe and affirming for the LGBTQ+ community. We will work to expand this list every year, so please let us know if you know somebody we should add!
The Accidental Detective
In our July issue, we published a story about the Billy Newton murder. Clark Williams, who was pivotal in solving that unsolved, decades-old crime, and who has now returned to his home state of Wisconsin, is picking up where that case left off and making a new career as a cold case investigator.
Finding Home One Barefoot Step at a Time
Barefoot Hands Bodywork is a thriving business on the eastside of Madison with multiple practitioners and a loyal client base of more than 3,000 people. Owner and barefoot massage practitioner Al Poliarco is at home here, but that wasn’t always the case.
Defying Bias, Building Bridges
A lifelong advocate and current Executive Director of the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Denise Jess confronts ableism, homophobia, and decades of institutional bias to build a movement rooted in visibility, belonging, and dignity for all.
2025 LGBTQ Health Services Directory: UnityPoint Health–Meriter
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Prioritizing Inclusive, Affirming Care for LGBTQ+ Youth At UnityPoint Health–Meriter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) facility, our commitment to LGBTQ+ mental health isn’t just something we say—it’s something we live out every...
Nowhere to Turn
Robin Copley, Madison’s former Independent Police Monitor, describes her experience coming out as a trans woman, being pressured into a “sex addiction” recovery program, and finding that it closely mirrored conversion therapy. She traces how shame, gender, and recovery culture collided to nearly destroy her and her career. Now she’s trying to reclaim her life.
The Politics of Survival
Noelle Mariano recounts how the hate crime she survived shattered her world and brought her to the brink—and how she reclaimed herself and her power. Now, she tells stories to change hearts and minds.
A Turning Point for LGBTQ+ Rights
If state Democrats win a trifecta—controlling the governorship and both houses—we could finally move from defense to progress.
Obituary: Mark R. Albright
September 15, 1965 – October 15, 2025
Obituary: Sylvie Sydney Rosenthal
September 4, 1979 – October 14, 2025
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