"Are you a friend of Sandy Brown?"
Oh, ABSOLUTELY. #BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
doorcountyknock.org/2026/01/for-...
Oh, ABSOLUTELY. #BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
doorcountyknock.org/2026/01/for-...
For LGBTQ+ residents of Door County, private gatherings helped build community over decades - Door County Knock
Every summer dozens of friends, old and new, gather on a 1930s-era clay tennis court on the grounds of an old summer cottage in Door County to play croquet. The court is filled in with grass and surro...
doorcountyknock.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"Are you a friend of Sandy Brown?"
Oh, ABSOLUTELY. #BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
doorcountyknock.org/2026/01/for-...
Oh, ABSOLUTELY. #BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
doorcountyknock.org/2026/01/for-...
Champagne Beige has been in high heels since the 1960s…. and Wisconsin’s oldest drag queen is STILL dishing it out.
Check out her inspiring story from this month’s Our Lives Magazine! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Check out her inspiring story from this month’s Our Lives Magazine! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Champagne: still high-kicking after 60 years in drag
Champagne Beige, Wisconsin's oldest drag performer, reflects on a sensational six-decade career that propelled her from La Crosse to Las Vegas.
ourliveswisconsin.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Champagne Beige has been in high heels since the 1960s…. and Wisconsin’s oldest drag queen is STILL dishing it out.
Check out her inspiring story from this month’s Our Lives Magazine! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Check out her inspiring story from this month’s Our Lives Magazine! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We were delighted to learn that four of Diana’s priceless 1985 photos — taken at Club 219 during the Golden Age of Milwaukee drag — have become part of the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@milwaukeeart.bsky.social
@milwaukeeart.bsky.social
Diana Mixalakapoulou: gorgeous glimpses of the Golden Age of Drag
Forty years ago, she photographed the legendary Club 219 showgirls for a film school project. Now, the Diana Diary has become living history.
www.wislgbthistory.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We were delighted to learn that four of Diana’s priceless 1985 photos — taken at Club 219 during the Golden Age of Milwaukee drag — have become part of the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@milwaukeeart.bsky.social
@milwaukeeart.bsky.social
Today, this month, and every day, we honor the Native, tribal, and indigenous histories of these lands, and the descendants who carry forward those teachings and legacies today, including our Two Spirit family. #BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today, this month, and every day, we honor the Native, tribal, and indigenous histories of these lands, and the descendants who carry forward those teachings and legacies today, including our Two Spirit family. #BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thirty-five years ago, he left the bullies of his U.P. hometown behind to conquer Wisconsin stages as drag legend Shawna Love.
Here's his story: tinyurl.com/shawna25
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Here's his story: tinyurl.com/shawna25
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Shawn Wandahsega: causing a commotion with confrontational drag
Thirty-five years ago, Shawn left the brutal bullies of his hometown behind to conquer Wisconsin stages as drag legend Shawna Love. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, he shares his story.
tinyurl.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Thirty-five years ago, he left the bullies of his U.P. hometown behind to conquer Wisconsin stages as drag legend Shawna Love.
Here's his story: tinyurl.com/shawna25
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Here's his story: tinyurl.com/shawna25
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
What's increasingly being lost in the inhumane anti-trans rhetoric:
EVERY trans person is someone's child.
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
EVERY trans person is someone's child.
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
You support your trans child. Increasingly, your country does not. And so, you worry. Then what?
The order is the latest in a series of injunctions that deny the rights, and even the existence, of transgender people.
www.jsonline.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What's increasingly being lost in the inhumane anti-trans rhetoric:
EVERY trans person is someone's child.
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
EVERY trans person is someone's child.
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
It's your move, Governor Evers.
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment
As some Democrats retreat, Pritzker doubles down on protecting the most vulnerable.
www.readtpa.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's your move, Governor Evers.
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
#BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
SAVE THE DATE!
Join us on Friday, March 28 at The Tarlton Theatre for a celebration of the GREATS of Green Bay drag. This special retrospective will include live performances, extremely rare videos, and more! All proceeds benefit the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project.
More details soon! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Join us on Friday, March 28 at The Tarlton Theatre for a celebration of the GREATS of Green Bay drag. This special retrospective will include live performances, extremely rare videos, and more! All proceeds benefit the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project.
More details soon! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
January 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
SAVE THE DATE!
Join us on Friday, March 28 at The Tarlton Theatre for a celebration of the GREATS of Green Bay drag. This special retrospective will include live performances, extremely rare videos, and more! All proceeds benefit the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project.
More details soon! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Join us on Friday, March 28 at The Tarlton Theatre for a celebration of the GREATS of Green Bay drag. This special retrospective will include live performances, extremely rare videos, and more! All proceeds benefit the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project.
More details soon! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Fifty years ago this month, Louis Stimac began teaching gay history at the Milwaukee Free University.
Sadly, Louis died eight weeks before our Project was born. This #PrideMonth, we honor Louis and his relentless lifelong fight to liberate our past, present, and future.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Sadly, Louis died eight weeks before our Project was born. This #PrideMonth, we honor Louis and his relentless lifelong fight to liberate our past, present, and future.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Fifty years ago this month, Louis Stimac began teaching gay history at the Milwaukee Free University.
Sadly, Louis died eight weeks before our Project was born. This #PrideMonth, we honor Louis and his relentless lifelong fight to liberate our past, present, and future.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Sadly, Louis died eight weeks before our Project was born. This #PrideMonth, we honor Louis and his relentless lifelong fight to liberate our past, present, and future.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Today’s BESTD Clinic is descended from Gay People’s Union VD Clinic — established in 1974 to provide no-cost, no-shame, just-in-time quality care to gay men who couldn’t seek traditional medical care out of fear of being outed.
GPU’s idea was revolutionary. And it saved countless lives. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
GPU’s idea was revolutionary. And it saved countless lives. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Milwaukee's Brady East STD Clinic celebrates 51 years of community service but its future could be in doubt
The Brady East STD Clinic has provided free sexual health services for 51 years. Now, after a federal funding freeze, its future could be in jeopardy.
www.tmj4.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Today’s BESTD Clinic is descended from Gay People’s Union VD Clinic — established in 1974 to provide no-cost, no-shame, just-in-time quality care to gay men who couldn’t seek traditional medical care out of fear of being outed.
GPU’s idea was revolutionary. And it saved countless lives. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
GPU’s idea was revolutionary. And it saved countless lives. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Give them our books — available at local booksellers — and connect them to our award-winning podcast, BE SEEN.
Point them to our website, our socials, and our events.
Give them a history lesson they won’t soon forget.
And maybe, just maybe, they’ll understand why pride matters. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Point them to our website, our socials, and our events.
Give them a history lesson they won’t soon forget.
And maybe, just maybe, they’ll understand why pride matters. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Be Seen
Radio Milwaukee has partnered with the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project on this podcast series documenting the state’s LGBTQ history. Hosted by Radio Milwaukee's Nate Imig and Michail Takach, curator f...
radiomilwaukee.org
June 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Give them our books — available at local booksellers — and connect them to our award-winning podcast, BE SEEN.
Point them to our website, our socials, and our events.
Give them a history lesson they won’t soon forget.
And maybe, just maybe, they’ll understand why pride matters. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Point them to our website, our socials, and our events.
Give them a history lesson they won’t soon forget.
And maybe, just maybe, they’ll understand why pride matters. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Can you imagine hating on gender-affirming care, when this is what gender-affirming care actually looks like?
We are proud of our community advisor, Elise Kehle, who spoke with WPR about how exclusionary legislation impacts human lives. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
We are proud of our community advisor, Elise Kehle, who spoke with WPR about how exclusionary legislation impacts human lives. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
Wisconsin speech and hearing clinic helps transgender clients find their voice
Like other types of gender-affirming care, voice therapy can help transgender people feel more at home in their bodies — and keep them safe from violence and harassment.
www.wpr.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Can you imagine hating on gender-affirming care, when this is what gender-affirming care actually looks like?
We are proud of our community advisor, Elise Kehle, who spoke with WPR about how exclusionary legislation impacts human lives. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
We are proud of our community advisor, Elise Kehle, who spoke with WPR about how exclusionary legislation impacts human lives. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
Bullies always attack those they consider the least likely to fight back.
But those bullies haven't met the trans youth of Wisconsin. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
But those bullies haven't met the trans youth of Wisconsin. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
What Will Trump’s Order Banning Care for Transgender Kids Mean?
The Trump administration is seeking to end access to gender transition treatments for youth under age 19.
urbanmilwaukee.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Bullies always attack those they consider the least likely to fight back.
But those bullies haven't met the trans youth of Wisconsin. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
But those bullies haven't met the trans youth of Wisconsin. #BeSeen 🏳️⚧️
Brilliant work, Legacy Project!
If we don’t rise up against exclusion and erasure, we WILL be removed from history again.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
If we don’t rise up against exclusion and erasure, we WILL be removed from history again.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
April 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Brilliant work, Legacy Project!
If we don’t rise up against exclusion and erasure, we WILL be removed from history again.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
If we don’t rise up against exclusion and erasure, we WILL be removed from history again.
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Today, she's the Chief Program Officer at Pathfinders -- and the Board President of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Here's her story: tinyurl.com/lvwclark25
@curvefdn.bsky.social
Here's her story: tinyurl.com/lvwclark25
@curvefdn.bsky.social
DeShanda Williams-Clark: living life without ceilings
Coming out at 15, DeShanda learned first-hand why inclusive and supportive resources matter for queer youth of color.
tinyurl.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today, she's the Chief Program Officer at Pathfinders -- and the Board President of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Here's her story: tinyurl.com/lvwclark25
@curvefdn.bsky.social
Here's her story: tinyurl.com/lvwclark25
@curvefdn.bsky.social
From Two-Spirit roots to wrestling rings to drag stages, "Packer" Chad Bowman has been a longtime mover and shaker in Milwaukee.
After four decades on the scene, Chad reflects on his wild ride through identity, community, and crisis. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
STORY: tinyurl.com/packerchad25
After four decades on the scene, Chad reflects on his wild ride through identity, community, and crisis. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
STORY: tinyurl.com/packerchad25
May 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From Two-Spirit roots to wrestling rings to drag stages, "Packer" Chad Bowman has been a longtime mover and shaker in Milwaukee.
After four decades on the scene, Chad reflects on his wild ride through identity, community, and crisis. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
STORY: tinyurl.com/packerchad25
After four decades on the scene, Chad reflects on his wild ride through identity, community, and crisis. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
STORY: tinyurl.com/packerchad25
We were so thrilled to connect with the amazing Rev. Janis Doleschal yesterday in Washington County.
Watch for her remarkable story coming soon to the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Watch for her remarkable story coming soon to the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
August 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We were so thrilled to connect with the amazing Rev. Janis Doleschal yesterday in Washington County.
Watch for her remarkable story coming soon to the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Watch for her remarkable story coming soon to the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project! #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Wisconsin unveils a beautiful set of rainbow crosswalks as other states backtrack - GayCities
"To anyone who sees these rainbows as a 'divisive' or 'political' symbol, we ask 'who made them political — and WHY?'”
www.gaycities.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Across seven generations, drag has enchanted, inspired, and mobilized Wisconsin.
Join us Friday, March 28 for an amazing night of drag, featuring rare archival footage, live performances, and guest speakers. All sales benefit the History Project. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
TICKETS: facebook.com/events/s/leg...
Join us Friday, March 28 for an amazing night of drag, featuring rare archival footage, live performances, and guest speakers. All sales benefit the History Project. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
TICKETS: facebook.com/events/s/leg...
February 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Across seven generations, drag has enchanted, inspired, and mobilized Wisconsin.
Join us Friday, March 28 for an amazing night of drag, featuring rare archival footage, live performances, and guest speakers. All sales benefit the History Project. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
TICKETS: facebook.com/events/s/leg...
Join us Friday, March 28 for an amazing night of drag, featuring rare archival footage, live performances, and guest speakers. All sales benefit the History Project. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
TICKETS: facebook.com/events/s/leg...
Pride Month may be over.
But now the real work begins.
At at time when our history is being erased, and our existence has been declared "optional," we're not disappearing until next June.
In fact, we're about to get a WHOLE LOT LOUDER. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
But now the real work begins.
At at time when our history is being erased, and our existence has been declared "optional," we're not disappearing until next June.
In fact, we're about to get a WHOLE LOT LOUDER. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
History Project launches three initiatives to amplify LGBTQ voice and visibility
Email from Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project Pride Month may be over, but the real work has just begun For Immediate Release Contact Michail Takach, Board Chair Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project 414.324.9
conta.cc
July 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pride Month may be over.
But now the real work begins.
At at time when our history is being erased, and our existence has been declared "optional," we're not disappearing until next June.
In fact, we're about to get a WHOLE LOT LOUDER. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
But now the real work begins.
At at time when our history is being erased, and our existence has been declared "optional," we're not disappearing until next June.
In fact, we're about to get a WHOLE LOT LOUDER. #BeSeen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️