At Diverse & Resilient, we see a future in which le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, and q***r people in Wisconsin thrive, living healthy, satisfying lives in safe, supportive communities.
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Our name serves as reminder that LGBTQ people are everywhere, engage in interesting and meaningful lives, and contribute to the welfare of each other and the broader community.
Our name serves as reminder that LGBTQ people are everywhere, engage in interesting and meaningful lives, and contribute to the welfare of each other and the broader community.
Operating as usual
Celebrating all of our nonbinary siblings and all their beauty! Take up space and be vast in your identity and expression ✨
Celebrating all of our nonbinary siblings and all their beauty! Take up space and be vast in your identity and expression ✨
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She’s the first out trans woman to be nominated in the category!
Thank you so much to Our Lives Magazine and Rae Senarighi for supporting our Black Trans women in Milwaukee ✨🏳️⚧️
SHEBA Sisters Helping Each other Battle Adversity
Today, Our Lives magazine made a $1,000 donation to SHEBA Sisters Helping Each other Battle Adversity, a Wisconsin organization by/for Black transwomen, in Rae Senarighi's name. Rae is a Madison-based transgender painter who painted the cover of our Pride in Color issue, and 8 individual portraits of the LGBTQ leaders of color that are featured in the issue. They waived their fee so that the funds could specifically be directed to SHEBA.
From now until Madison's Pride at the end of August, you can see all of the paintings hanging in the Shamrock Bar & Grille on Capitol Square in Madison.
You can view the full PDF of our Pride in Color issue here:https://ourliveswisconsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OL85.pdf
Happy for everyone that made it to our 1st Q***r Clothing Swap ✨ Hope you all enjoy your new treasures!
We'll see you there! 💜
Milwaukee Pride Inc., the parent organization of Milwaukee's PrideFest, will hold "PridetoberFest" at Henry Maier Festival Park on Oct. 8 and 9.
The news is out! Milwaukee Pride 2021 is coming this October 🙌🏾 Makes us reminisce on the Pride March for Black Lives 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thank you to LaLux Photography for capturing all this beauty ✨
See our own Yante Turner and many other brilliant leaders in this July/August Our Lives Magazine: Pride in Color! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
https://ourliveswisconsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OL85.pdf
See our own Yante Turner and many other brilliant leaders in this July/August Our Lives Magazine: Pride in Color! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
https://ourliveswisconsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OL85.pdf
Hot Boy Summer 💜
Alexa, play Hot Boy Summer. 🙌🏾
"After years of hiding himself, he is trying to be a hitmaker, a pop star, an out gay man and a s*xual being." - NYT Magazine
Read the full article https://nyti.ms/3dTHs1j
Tonight at 5pm!
We’ll see you at the 1st ever Trans Masc social on July 6th! 🏳️⚧️💙
Remember to support our own Le***an bar - One of the few in the country! Happy 20 years ✨
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- During the final week of Pride Month, CBS 58 is recognizing a Milwaukee bar celebrating its 20th anniversary. Amanda Porterfield shows us what makes Walker's Pint -- located at 81
Here is a link to our full Trans Needs Assessment! Thank you to those that joined to call today ✨
What is your role in supporting Trans communities? 🏳️⚧️
1. In the development of Trans leadership.
2. In keeping Trans people safe and eliminating violence.
3. In creating/sustaining healing spaces.
Click or tap to view this file.
Thank you for the amazing work Alex Corona has been doing around name changes in Milwaukee! 🏳️⚧️✨
Alex Corona, the transgender program coordinator for the Milwaukee LBGT Community Center, joins us.
Got cute clothes you want to have a new home? Wanna get some cute clothes? Give and take at Kilbourne (Big Hill) Park right by D&R on July 11th from 1-3pm! All styles and all sizes for our Q***r Clothing Swap 🧚🏾♂️ Correction: 7.11.21... and beyond
Got cute clothes you want to have a new home? Wanna get some cute clothes? Give and take at Kilbourne (Big Hill) Park right by D&R on July 11th from 1-3pm! All styles and all sizes for our Q***r Clothing Swap 🧚🏾♂️ Correction: 7.11.21... and beyond
“I want you to know that Black Trans women are women. I want you to know that we are proud. That we are strong. That we are beautiful.”
Give Elle Halo all the flowers that she deserves! She has been essential for our work at D&R, for Black Trans women, and for the entire LGBTQ community ✨It is a blessing to know her and learn from her. Happy to see her recognized and celebrated 💜
No one is going to silence Milwaukee community activist Elle Halo. In fact, she is just getting started.
We'll see you tonight at D&R with Gluttoni Sinn !
Next time you're on a trip to Chicago
The bar, which has gone through four owners, has primarily served Chicago's Black and brown LGBTQ+ community for nearly 60 years.
Thank you to all who came before us in this fight for equality.
This Pride Month, we're celebrating LGBTQ+ Changemakers in Wisconsin!
Today, lets' talk about Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans, a le***an couple who pushed for same-s*x marriage starting in the 1970s.
In September 1971, Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans applied to a Milwaukee County clerk for a marriage license. Burkett, twenty-five at the time, had grown up on Milwaukee’s North Side. After graduating from North Division High School, she took some college and technical school classes and then joined the US Army, spending time in Alabama where she experienced racial segregation. When she returned to Milwaukee, she became an activist, marching with Father James Groppi for open housing in 1968 and attending Gay People’s Union (GPU) meetings. Burkett met Manonia Evans, a college student and pastor’s daughter four years her junior, at a gay bar on the North Side. Burkett later recalled, “I did not believe the government had any business telling me who I could marry.”
After being refused a license, Burkett and Evans filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the denial of marital benefits, including inheritance rights and joint tax filings, did not afford them the equal protection granted by the Constitution. The complaint read, “The legal increments of marriage ought to be shared irrespective of generic differences, to wit: mutual fulfillment and happiness and the equal opportunity to share in the benefits of the law as those in heteros*xual unions blessed by the civil marriage contract.” Federal judge Myron Gordon dismissed the suit over technical legal issues. Undeterred, the couple invited 250 friends to witness their union, which took place on Christmas Day in 1971 in Milwaukee.
Burkett and Evans’s story made national news and drew attention to marriage inequality, and their example encouraged others to continue the fight. In 2015, more than four decades after Manonia Evans and Donna Burkett applied for a marriage license, same-s*x marriage finally became legal in all fifty states after the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The push for marriage equality by visionaries such as Burkett and Evans made such change possible.
*This story was adapted from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press books "Coming Out, Moving Forward," by R. Richard Wagner, available here (https://wihist.org/3gZwWYj) , and "We Will Always Be Here," by Jenny Kalvaitis and Kristen Whitson, available here (https://wihist.org/3ji7puK).
Donna Burkett was interviewed by the OUTWORDS Archive in 2018.
📷: "The government doesn’t have the right to tell you who to go to bed with,” said Donna Burkett in response to when she and her partner, Manonia Evans, were denied a marriage license in Milwaukee in 1971. Isaac Sutton, Johnson Publishing, Smithsonian Institution
Diverse and Resilient, Milwaukee County Office of African American Affairs, and our community member facilitators would like to thank you for your time, energy, and participation in this past Saturday’s MKE BlaQtpoc Summit.
We’re thankful for the range of diversity
among orientation, gender identity, ethnicity and multi-generational representation of Black, Q***r, Trans, and other people of color in the greater Milwaukee community who took the time to join and build with us.
For those who were not able to attend, please be
on the lookout for next steps and upcoming engagement opportunities. We look forward to seeing you at our next event.
We’ll see you at the 1st ever Trans Masc social on July 6th! 🏳️⚧️💙
We’ll see you at the 1st ever Trans Masc social on July 6th! 🏳️⚧️💙
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She closed out her speech by mentioning "my love" and wishing everyone a "Happy Pride...
Good news!
The forms that are used to generate birth certificates will include options for combinations of "mother and father," "parent and parent," and "parent giving birth" starting July 1.
The forms that are used to generate birth certificates will include options for "mother and father," "parent and parent," and "parent giving birth" starting July 1.
Reiko, youth advocate, showed up with D&R Pride at a Pride festival in Appleton.
We #ShareWithPride :trans: 🌈✊🏽✊🏿
Photo from yesterday, passing out D&R swag at Pride At The Plaza in Appleton!
Diverse & Resilient's Room to Be Safe Anti-Violence Program is a proud member of the National Coalition of AVPs. This call to action was created about 5 years ago.
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Repost @endlgbtqviolence
What can you do to help? Check out these suggestions from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence and checkout their site which is full of resources and information at www.avp.org #NCAVP #endlgbtqviolence
CALLS TO ACTION TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBTQ COMMUNITIES
Recognize historical systems of oppression such as white supremacy, anti-Black racism, patriarchy, and colonialism as root causes of violence and incorporate anti-oppression work as central to all efforts to end violence.
Support community based efforts that create pathways for individual and community healing and survivor centered justice.
Advocate for education, healthcare, housing, and economic opportunities that affirm the experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming people of color
Call out and resist “religious exemption” and “public accommodation" bills for the hateful legislation that they
are and advocate for increased protections for LGBTQ communities on the local, state and federal evel.
Act in solidarity with all movements working towards liberation and self-determination of people impacted by oppression and violence.
Actively work to create culture that nurtures LGBTQ youth by uplifting the loving, resilient, and diverse experiences of LGBTQ communities.
NCAVP
You are loved.
We’re ready to share our findings on the Trans Needs Assessment! Join us in taking the next step to hear the stories, data, and envision a better Milwaukee for our Trans and Nonbinary Community ✨
Thank you for all those that have been apart of sharing their stories and experiences!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89436405810
We’re ready to share our findings on the Trans Needs Assessment! Join us in taking the next step to hear the stories, data, and envision a better Milwaukee for our Trans and Nonbinary Community ✨
Thank you for all those that have been apart of sharing their stories and experiences!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89436405810
NBC26 stopped to talk with Anti-Violence Program advocate Reiko last night at the Timber Rattlers game about Pride and the importance of representation. Here is the footage from the 10 o'clock news last night.
https://www.nbc26.com/news/local-news/timber-rattlers-to-host-pride-night-at-fox-cities-stadium-on-tuesday?fbclid=IwAR3iJaVMm2n4NIIoyb2HFFQSV_Q3THfAU3wf9l9G-ajZvRM-Cxeg4IMkt8U
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers held Pride Night on Tuesday to advance inclusivity in sports.
“We want to build a community that will prioritize keeping everybody safe — space for people to be able to plan and map out their futures” 💜
To Kayla Gore, home is not only a place but a feeling — within your body and from your community — that tells you that you are safe.
We are grateful to Benjamin Mollen at Dr. Jekyll's Bar Appleton for starting this fund and to Helen Boyd for starting the Go Fund Me page. Huge shout out to our advocates Nick Ross and Reiko Ramos for walking along side people on this journey.
It costs $400 for a person to legally change their name in Wisconsin, but that cost can pose a barrier for many transgender people.
See Yanté on Thursday discuss being Black, Trans, and Radical✨
Join us this Thursday (6/24) at 6pm CST to hear from Yanté Turner as they talk about upholding intersectional identities! Join with bit.ly/YouthWorkshopSeries for our LIVE event!
*FREE* raffle to those that participate! #Pride2021 #Dare2Know
Youth from WI are encouraged to attend along with mentors working with youth!
Northeast Wisconsin pride.
Nick & Reiko reppin' D&R at Pride Night with Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
We'll be here until the end of the 1st inning!
Tonight! Join this community conversation at D&R.
Tonight! Join this community conversation at D&R.
"Representation and visibility are so important."
He made the announcement in an Instagram post and said he hoped coming out as gay would help increase "visibility."
Welcome to the family, Carl Nassib! We are overjoyed to have visible representation in the NFL! Your bravery and courage will inspire countless others to walk their truths! Thank you!
Carl Nassib, a five-year NFL veteran and defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders, came out in an Instagram video on Monday as gay.
Doing the right thing!
President Biden made the choice to add the coverage...
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For those who could not be there, here are the words of: Montell Ross - Event Organizer and local entertainer Chris Walton - Chair of Democratic Party of Milwaukee County and candidate for State Assembly District 17 Elle Halo - D&R Board Member and Trans Activist Lex Allen - Local LGBTQ singer songwriter Thank you to everyone who made this event possible. It was truly beautiful to witness. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackQueerLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #BlackGenderNonconformingLivesMatter #BlackNonbinaryLivesMatter #ALLBlackLivesMatter
Flashback Friday to last week's Spirit Week Silent Party sponsored by D&R's Intersectionality Among Men. Doing the Mil-Town version of Bikers Shuffle by Big Mucci. Check out those moves!
A week ago tonight we were at the Challenge Party singing "Seasons of Love." We may not be Broadway bound (just yet), but we could all feel the love. Thanks to Matt Luther for his piano playing skills.
This is how D&R rolls when we are waiting for a Pride Parade to start - We DO believe in Pride!
Sharing this special moment from last night's LGBTQ Partnership youth event Night of Noise in Appleton with Lex Allen at The Refuge. Imagine a world where all queer youth can know they are beautiful, loved, worthy. Just as they are. Let's keep focusing on building that world.
A Day without Latinx and in Waukesha
Bethamie Wyatt and Kofi Short of Diverse & Resilient address HIV/STI outbreak in social networks in Milwaukee.
Women Against Hate United in Love
Lex Allen & Taj Raiden live at #WILGBTQSUMMIT debuting #ColorsinBloom
It is an honor to partner with Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in our work. Tonight we received the Fantastic Supporting Organization award from Planned Parenthood. Here is Planned Parenthood CEO Tanya Atkinson and Annia Leonard presenting as Diverse & Resilient 414ALL414ALL Program Coordinator Mark Silva accepts on behalf of D&R.
This is a wonderful clip of the current exhibit at the RedLine Gallery - Life of An Artist. Paul Mandracchia is the late husband of our Founding Executive, Gary Hollander. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
Diverse & Resilient was founded by Gary Hollander in 1995 as a program to build the capacity of LGBTQ groups in Wisconsin. We have grown to be an independent nonprofit agency that employs 19 staff and serves over 5,000 LGBTQ people every year. We do both capacity-building and direct-service work to address the health disparities experienced by LGBTQ people in Wisconsin. Our work is focused on six priority areas: Acceptance, Cultivating Leaders, Mental Health, Sexual Health, Partner & Community Violence, and Substance Use.
Career Youth Development, Inc.
2601 N Dr Martin Luther King Jr DrRISE - Regional Internships in Science & Engi
2745 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Suite 100Urban Economic Development Association of WI
1915 N Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Suite 260Innovative Educational Solutions Institute, I
2821 N 4th St, Ste 211Volunteers of America of Wisconsin
1661 N Water St, Ste 401
The House of Kings and Priests, Inc.
4718 W Garfield Ave
MCSC Milwaukee Community Service Corps
1441 N 7th St
Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee
316 N Milwaukee St, Ste 215