Childhood friends Jillian Macson and Eli Wedel co-own Pyramid Event Venue—a boutique performance and event venue in Lake Mills—where locals and out-of-towners alike are treated to delicious pizza and fabulous entertainment.
Embracing queer celebration as a core tenet of their business, Auntie M’s Creations owner Nadine Mobley has been recognized as the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Business of the Year.
Akshat Sharma talks with Taymour Soomro, a Pakistani writer here on a Creative Writing Fellowship at UW-Madison, about his debut novel Other Names for Love, and telling authentic South Asian queer love stories.
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.
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.
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.
Holy Wisdom Monastery is known for its care of both the Earth and its ecumenical community. Its restored prairie offers a healing space for contemplation and quiet recreation. CEO Charles McLimans shares the journey that brought him there.
Gary Tipler explains the vital LGBTQ history of the Wuennenberg-Clarenbach House, where some of the city’s and state’s pioneering LGBTQ lawmakers and movements made their home.
Emmett Lockwood holds the distinction of being the first openly transgender player on University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s water polo team. He is also a Disability Justice Activist with an advocacy that originates from coming to know he had no one else to be but himself.