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The Main Event

The Main Event

Jan 1, 2021

An unexpected health crisis led Clyde Mayberry to center his joy in event planning. Now he’s grown Events by Mayberry into a large-scale event planning company with its own 2,000-square-foot venue space.

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In the Hot Seat

In the Hot Seat

Jan 1, 2021

Dane County Board Supervisor Elena Haasl is rising to challenge the tokenization of youth and BIPOC elected leadership.

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Thu 04

TGNC Youth Support Group

March 4 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Thu 04

Circles of Recovery Anonymous Meeting: (12 Step Facilitated/Various Methods of Recovery)

March 4 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Thu 04

Circles of Reflection

March 4 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Fri 05

PRISM peer support group

March 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat 06

Family Coffee – Fifty And Better

March 6 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sat 06

World Vibe Festival 2021: Kat and the Hurricane

March 6 @ 12:00 pm
Sat 06

Rockstar Legends (40+ Virtual LGBTQ+ Support Group)

March 6 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Sat 06

Exploring Voice Feminization – Workshops

March 6 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Food & Dining

At Home in the Kitchen

Gavin Logan shares how he’s bringing his passion business to life, as he’s turned The Baker’s Table of Sun Prairie into a robust b2b bakery, providing his creations to top area restaurants.

Captain Bills and Manna Cafe become pandemic casualties

The COVID crisis led to the closure of two more Madison restaurant institutions.  Manna Cafe & Bakery’s last day of operation was June 28. The cafe had its roots in the Collins House bed and breakfast that was famous for its...

Homecoming

Unwavering support helped Sergio De La O Hernandez and Michael Dix, of Michael’s Frozen Custard, triumph over a turbulent immigration battle.

Treasured Heritage

Dino Maniaci shares the family traditions and culinary inspirations behind D’Vino.

Farm to [Everyone’s] Table

FL Morris hopes the pandemic’s exposure of the fragility of our food system will bring about change and give more people access to healthy food, something that she has been working toward for years on her Grassroots Farm.

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Arts & Entertainment

Family & Self: A Life’s Journey

Community elder and organizer Rita Adair is a mom and foster mom who endured unimaginable tragedy but found her way back to herself. She reflects on growing up in a mixed-race family, early lessons on tolerance and civil rights in Madison, and her life’s work creating equitable support for communities of color.

Representation Matters

Throughout Keith Borden’s life, he has strived to be seen and be light in spaces where people of color are often invisible or missing altogether. Sometimes that has meant imitating those he admires, and sometimes that has meant forging his own path.

Performing Gender

Bailey Mosling found that performing in drag helped him carve out space between gender identity and gender expression—all while keeping it fun.

Go Do Something Good

Dana Pellebon is co-executive director of Rape Crisis Center and is on the OutReach board, among others. Both are places where she can create change, advocate for others, and make a difference in the lives of traditionally underserved people—values instilled in her at a young age and reinforced along the way.

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Home & Garden

Making History

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.

Building Community

Madison Planning Division’s new director, Heather Stouder, found a passion for building more equitable and sustainable cities through travel, starting a family of her own, and Madison’s unique needs and opportunities.

From Dream to Reality

Marge Anderson tracks her upbringing during the heyday of Wisconsin’s manufacturing industry to her current work in sustainability, and how she sees hope for a better world even amid life’s many ups and downs.

Legacy House

Renee L. Herber & Tamara B. Packard on preserving the history of their east side home and renovating with community support and outreach in mind.

10 years of Our Lives

Our Lives turns 10 years old this July, and this issue marks the start of our year-long retrospective. We take a look back at some of the people, stories, and changes that have marked the past decade of the LGBTQ community here in Madison, the state, and beyond.

Earth Mover

Tricia Bross of Luna Circle Farm talks about her decades worth of experience in organic farming, the challenges and rewards of the farming life, and the girlfriends and broke-down cars that helped get her there.

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Health & Families

Challenging Institutions

With LGBTQ advocacy spanning health care, academia, and the military, as the new director of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH is working to build a healthier future for all marginalized populations.

Family & Self: A Life’s Journey

Community elder and organizer Rita Adair is a mom and foster mom who endured unimaginable tragedy but found her way back to herself. She reflects on growing up in a mixed-race family, early lessons on tolerance and civil rights in Madison, and her life’s work creating equitable support for communities of color.

Representation Matters

Throughout Keith Borden’s life, he has strived to be seen and be light in spaces where people of color are often invisible or missing altogether. Sometimes that has meant imitating those he admires, and sometimes that has meant forging his own path.

Queer We Are, Together We Heal

Student activist Steven Wang formed a coalition of Madison-based LGBTQ+ organizations to launch a campaign to address health equity issues and promote cross-group collaboration during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Go Do Something Good

Dana Pellebon is co-executive director of Rape Crisis Center and is on the OutReach board, among others. Both are places where she can create change, advocate for others, and make a difference in the lives of traditionally underserved people—values instilled in her at a young age and reinforced along the way.

Finding Home

Sex educator and disability rights advocate Grayson Schultz came into their activism by transforming personal hardships into purposeful empowerment.

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