ARTICLES

• INTERSECT: A Pride Arts Festival

  by Sara “Intersect is an event for the community and by the community. That means putting the decision-making power into the hands of the community to help shape it’s future” WHAT does it mean to honor the legacy of those we’ve lost? It can look different for everyone. Maybe it’s a memorial garden or charitable…

• ICONS #1, In Our Own Voices: Leslie Feinberg

  Jeff, you fell down the rabbit hole of local LGBTQ history back in 2019? Most people think that Gay Liberation happened in a big city. How did that begin and what has this taught you about LGBTQ history? It was earlier than that. I was a Women’s Studies minor as an undergraduate because at the…

• Sam Norquist Trial

  In February of last year, Sam Nordquist, a trans man from Minnesota was found murdered in a field in Yates county, NY, just ninety minutes from Buffalo. He was apparently lured to Hopewell NY under false pretenses of a relationship and then tortured in a motel room with, “unspeakable cruelty” for over a month. The…

• 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 has been a cornerstone of Buffalo’s arts and LGBTQ+ communities for over two decades The Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) and Nickel City Treble Makers (NCTM) are launching their 2025–2026…

• 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 Conference Hall Research Studies Center (RSC) 665 Elm Street Buffalo NY 14263 JOIN Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center for Spectrum of Care: How to Navigate LGBTQIA2S+ Cancer Services, happening Saturday,…

• 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+ folks face the same core mental health challenges as anyone else — depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, struggles with identity or meaning. We’re human beings, after all. But we often face…