Gay Charlotte and LGBTQ Carolina News, Arts & Entertainment
Nikolai Mather has earned more than a few impressive distinctions. With a combination of persistence, talent and audacity, he’s become a college student, a leader, an activist, a pioneer — and most recently, a journalist.
Chely Wright is an award-winning country singer-songwriter and LGBT activist.
Adam Rippon is an Olympic figure skater and an advocate for LGBT rights. In 2018 he became the first openly gay American athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
Ann Northrop is a pioneering journalist and news producer who spearheaded media strategy for ACT UP and AIDS awareness during the height of the epidemic
Mmapaseka “Steve” Letsike is a leading South African HIV/AIDS and LGBTI activist.
Chi Chia-wei is a pioneering Taiwanese gay rights activist and marriage equality champion. He helped make Taiwan the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
Francisco J. “El Jimagua” Cartagena Méndez is a Puerto Rican writer and well-known human rights activist.
Richard D. Burns is a longtime LGBT community leader and organizer.
Melvin “Mel” Boozer was a university professor, an activist for gay and African-American rights and the first openly gay candidate for vice president of the United States.
Though she was 10 years old the first time she heard the word “transgender,” Sarah McBride knew from an early age that she was really a girl.
