ARTICLES

• 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 […]

• 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 her featured poem, and visit […]

• 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 break free from a cycle […]

• 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 trans people who sculpt bodies at their own whim. If to be queer is to reject the norm, and a monster is what is not the norm, then to be…

• 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, New York, throughout the 1960s […]

• 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, there have been voices that […]