After the 1,000 condoms are dispensed out into the Kentucky community, we will start planning our NEXT condom giveaway. Any business can partner with us on this program. We love community and we love partnership. We are advocates for health here at Queer Kentucky, and we realize that not everyone has access to safe […]
John Brooks, Frankfort, Kentucky On the word “queer” I turned 40 in early March, so I grew up mostly in the 1980s. When I was a kid, I never heard the word queer unless it was a slur hurled by people usually my parents’ age or older. In my memory, queer was usually plural and […]
Simon Spark, Mt. Washington, Kentucky Growing up (mostly) in Bullitt County, I was thankfully introduced to transgressive artists like David Bowie, Lydia Lunch, Marilyn Manson, and Courtney Love at a young age. Even though most of them weren’t gay, they expressed and carried themselves in a way that inspired me. They confused my family […]
David J. Welker, Louisville, Kentucky by way of New Orleans, Minnesota and Ohio I have this sad obsession with fur coats. But they’re so cheap at Goodwill sometimes. One of them was real, but it was four dollars. It’s the one thing I feel I can pull off that I don’t see a lot of […]
The Limbo is Louisville’s newest and only tiki lounge and the home of Titty Tiki Tuesdays. Ethel Loveless hosts and produces this show every Tuesday with different performers each week. Many forms of burlesque, boylesque, drag, and other varieties are included in the night’s festivities. You never know what you’re going to get! The […]
Syimone, DJ from Louisville, Kentucky Queer means independent to me. It means that you are standing up and claiming who you are and who you can be. I identify as trans, and as history has taught us, trans women were the movers and shakers of this movement. Trans women of color don’t get the respect […]
Joshua, Meade County, Kentucky I’m here, I’m queer, and I’m just trying to find balance. I think it’s important to find balance with queer identity because it can’t be your soul self. It’s an aspect of who I am but it doesn’t need to rule my entire life.
Zach, 24, Kentucky Placing my sexuality and identity on a scale for me has gotten to be wrong. I’ve found that my best self is the one who dresses how I want to dress, saying what I want to say, and doing what I want to do. I spent way too long trying to […]
Kelsie, 25, Bardstown I didn’t know I was a lesbian when I was growing up in Bardstown. It was one of those battles I fought in my head; I had convinced myself I was straight. Being straight was the norm and none of my friends were gay; they were all stright. When I moved […]
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“We have to become a united queer community. We are the most magical people there are and we have to remember to tap into that power once we find that magic within ourselves.” -Jaison Gardner, Activist, Entrepreneur, Kentucky
Tessa, 24, Kentucky This poem gave me a voice for my family to hear. The first time I spit that piece they had never heard it. Me being gay was a taboo issue. It was a way to force my family to listen. They couldn’t scream at me from the audience and my struggle was […]
José, Louisville/Lexington, Kentucky I moved here a month before the 2016 presidential election…and moved back to Portland, Ore. for six months after the election before returning. I think everybody felt very devastated, my partner and I felt devastated and we didn’t have a community to fall back on because we didn’t know anyone in […]
Eric Logan Bates, Kentucky, by way of everywhere else “I’m glad to have met you. I like cuddling with you and shit.” “It’s gonna happen again boy. I like chillin with you. Because I love the picture tbh.” “I’m surprisingly a fan too. Normally it’s the opposite.” “It’s because I made you happy. Duh” […]
Pablo, Lexington, Kentucky I feel like the word gay is kind of like a white man’s term. Because when I was growing up watching shows like Queer Eye and other media about gay men, it was never about men who looked like me or my friends. All my friends growing up were black or […]
Rebekah Frank, Louisville, Kentucky Queer? I love it. It’s a celebration. It’s open. It’s ambiguous. It’s comfortable. It represents infinite possibilities of what it means to be not straight and I love that. You could be anything you want. Originally, I came out as bisexual when I was 12…to my parents, not just my […]
Ty Francis, Louisville, Kentucky I am a man of color and gay. I’m open with it. I like to wear nice clothes and be fashionable. I like to change up my appearance based on where I’m going and how I’m feeling and I love it. Fuck, everybody loves queer people right now. I feel like […]
