Fall 2025

COMING OUT! Fall 2025 Issue of Proud Voice Magazine.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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+…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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,…

  • 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…