Fall 2025
COMING OUT! Fall 2025 Issue of Proud Voice Magazine.
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BGMC & NCTM Coming Out Day Celebration
From Proud Voice Fall 2025 Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus and Nickel City Treble Makers Kick Off 2025–2026 Concert Season with Coming Out Day Celebration BGMC…
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Spectrum of Care: HOW TO NAVIGATE LGBTQIA2S+ CANCER SERVICES
UPDATE AS OF 03/01/2026: The event has been postponed. FROM PROUD VOICE Fall 2025, Coming Out! November 8, 2025 9-2PM Hohn Auditorium & Gaylord Cary…
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Healing the Wounds Within
Trauma, Addiction, and the Promise of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for LGBTQ+ Mental Health by Seaghan Coleman, LCSW-R Let’s start with something simple — and true: LGBTQ+…
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Juniper Raven Thunders
The Buffalo Niagara Proud Alliance was lucky enough to chat with Juniper Raven Thunders, a Buffalo poet, open-mic host, andmusician. Check out the interview, read…
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What Is Recovery?
by Jessie Powers Recovery happens in that quiet moment when someone says to themselves, “This just doesn’t stop… but I’m done.” It’s the decision to…
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How, Don’t Hide
The monster, by necessity, must be anything but human— cast in all the ugly things found in normative society: sexually dominant women, effeminate men, and…
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Tiki Raids and Buffalo Activism
By Layla Komenda From the gay bar scene in the 1960s to the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, LGBTQ neighbors and allies of Buffalo,…
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The Past & Present: Shaping Buffalo’s Queer Community
By Shelby Throughout Buffalo’s long and often forgotten history, its cultural diversity and sordid past (and present), coupled with its stringent segregation and myriad injustices,…
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COMING OUT
By Sara October 11th was National Coming Out Day. To celebrate, we asked our community to share their coming out stories. The following are first…

