Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes

Pride and Joy tells the stories of queer citizens of the world living OUT and proud happy, fulfilling, successful lives - stories of success, happiness, and hope from the LGBT community. Stories that are diverse and global; famous and unsung.

Discover LGBT community stories that will stir you and reveal:

why Tony Kushner quit cello and how Colm Toibin found his voice

why Emma Donoghue calls her experience a fluke and the best advice Bill T. Jones got was from his mother

how being an inaugural poet changed Richard Blanco’s life and how Ugandan activist LongJones escaped death threats and gained asylum.

Award-winning writer and longtime LGBTQ activist Kathleen Archambeau tells the untold stories from diverse LGBT community voices from around the corner or around the world. There is a story here for everyone in the LGBT community who has ever questioned their sexual orientation or gender identity, or discovered it.