FROM METRO STREETS TO APPALACHIAN TRAILS

Scaling With Purpose: McDonald’s Operator Matt Dodd Champions Queer Visibility in Business

June 16, 2025 | Sponsored Content

Matt Dodd leads 17 McDonald’s with pride, blending queer identity, community, and business.

Black Queer Joy, Songwriting, and the Power of Intergenerational Pride with the Louisville Orchestra

June 14, 2025 | Art, Culture, Sponsored Content

Louisville Orchestra spotlights LGBTQ+ voices in new Pride songwriting concert June 20.

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‘Drag Me to Church’ Returns: Gospel Drag Show Celebrates Pride, Supports Food Ministry

June 8, 2025 | Sponsored Content

Celebrate Pride at Calvary’s gospel drag show, benefiting its weekly food ministry.

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How you can help women, children and LGBTQ+ people impacted by Hurricane Helene

October 1, 2024 | Culture, Health, Horoscopes, Sponsored Content, Thinking Queerly

Originally published by The 19th Your trusted source for contextualizing the news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. The destruction of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida on Thursday as a Category 4 storm, is coming sharply into focus as the death toll has continued to climb in North and South Carolina, Florida and […]

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Feeling at Home in Louisville: PLAY with Bee Harmon

August 16, 2024 Issue 4, Culture, Health, Horoscopes, Sponsored Content, Thinking Queerly

photos by Jon Cherry Queer Kentucky has partnered with Louisville Magazine for our fourth print issue. We asked Louisvillians and Kentuckians at large about their queerness and its relationship to the city, where they feel at home, who was there for them when it felt like nobody else was, the biggest issues facing Louisville’s queer communities, and […]

Leading with Pride: Matt Dodd’s Story of Success and Advocacy

June 20, 2024 Sponsored Content, Business

How a McDonald’s franchisee is using his platform to support and uplift communities in the Louisville area. It wasn’t even a week into Pride month when I got to meet with Matt Dodd at Flanagan’s Ale House in Louisville. Hoping to get away from the June heat, we each order a drink and start talking […]

Actors Theatre of Louisville Celebrates Drag and Theatre with Dusty Ray Bottoms and May O’Nays

March 15, 2024 Culture, Sponsored Content

Already enjoyed an evening of theatre at Actors Theatre of Louisville or somewhere else in town? The fun doesn’t have to stop there! Prepare for a night that’s more thrilling than an 11 o’clock number and as memorable as a classic show tune by sashaying your way to The After Show Show—a late-night offering where […]

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dallas Theater Center present the queer comedy I AM DELIVERED’T

March 6, 2024 Culture, Sponsored Content

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Good Friday. The New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church’s Seven Last Words service is in full swing. But outside—in the church parking lot—another resurrection story is taking shape. Sis, the Vice President of Usher Board Number One, and her protégé Pickles find themselves in a battle royale of romantic quagmires. This joyful new […]

ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH UPSTART CROW COLLECTIVE, PRESENTS SHAKESPEARE’S KING JOHN, ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY ROSA JOSHI—NOVEMBER 8-19

November 10, 2023 Sponsored Content

Actors Theatre of Louisville is proud to herald this imaginative interpretation of Shakespeare’s King John. Unfolding in a treacherous world ruled by self-interest, warmongering, and a lack of moral leadership, this fascinating political thriller follows a scheming monarch battling threats from abroad and within. Produced in association with upstart crow collective—a company dedicated to re-contextualizing […]

Grab your ticket to Pandora Productions: ‘A Very Sordid Wedding’ runs through May 22

May 11, 2022 Culture, Sponsored Content

Still Sordid After All These Years: A reflection on the show It’s 2015, and seventeen years later, the sordid saga continues with all the same crazy characters we love. After a chance meeting with a dangerous criminal, Brother Boy, who has added Loretta and Dolly to his repertoire, is forced out on the run. Ty […]

HIV testing in 2021: Quick, simple and inspired by friends

March 26, 2021 Gov & Politics, Health, Sponsored Content

photo: Gay ACT UP members carrying huge banner that reads THE AIDS CRISIS IS NOT OVER as they walk down the street during Gay & Lesbian Pride march. MICHAEL ABRAMSON/THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION VIA GETTY IMAGES Queer Kentucky and VOA FIT continue HIV education partnership by Kelsey Westbrook A stark, fluorescent-lit hallway, hospital-issued outdated chairs […]

Protect your pleasure: Talking safe butt stuff with VOA FIT

February 24, 2020 Sponsored Content

Most of us have had some sort of sexual education class during schooling. It was most likely taught to you by a very awkward P.E. teacher who was forced to briefly go over the birds and the bees of cis het sex. Or, you had an eighth grade science and life skills teacher that told […]

Queer Kentucky’s partner 502 Hemp discusses CBD: Is USDA Organic better?

February 11, 2020 Sponsored Content

In the organic trend, consumers are discovering the benefits of avoiding chemicals and pesticides. Certainly, CBD is no exception. USDA organic seals and non-GMO labels are a couple of ways consumers identify quality foods and products. However, does the label make CBD better? No, CBD labeled USDA Organic isn’t better. The USDA is a voluntary […]

‘Protect your Pleasure’ and get tested with Queer Kentucky’s partner: VOA Fit

January 28, 2020 Sponsored Content

Volunteers of America Mid-States HIV program is dedicated to helping educate the community around testing, prevention and treatment resources. They conduct free, confidential HIV testing with results in minutes, distribute an abundance of safer sex supplies to the community and provide linkage to care when appropriate. Their program also provides housing assistance for individuals living […]

Queerness and Vegan Culture: How Louisville Vegan Jerky Company has found a home in Kentucky’s queer culture

January 15, 2020 Sponsored Content

by Sarah Gardiner Walk into any vegan restaurant and you’re likely to see the two more popular staples of any “alternative”-eatery: faux-meat and queer customers. Such is the case at the Louisville Vegan Jerky Company and former Morels’ new pop-up shops quickly spreading throughout the city. Vegan and Vegetarianism have always had deep ties to […]

HIV/AIDS fundraiser serves up chocolate realness: Chocolate Fest 2019

July 12, 2019 Sponsored Content

Chocolate, liquor, auctions and more! Kentuckiana AIDS Alliance’s annual Chocolate Fest fundraiser is Aug 3 at the Mellwood Art Center. The event is from 7 p.m. — 11 p.m. The KAA unites local non-profit agencies to provide a unique system of support for those affected by HIV/AIDS. They serve 19 counties in and around Metro […]

Lesbian Heaven existed, and it was located in Germantown

July 11, 2019 Sponsored Content

By Sarah Gardiner, Nanny Goat Books Photo by: Camilla Jasis-Wallace The first time I walked into Purrswaytions was on New Years Eve 2015. I was supposed to be on my way to New York, but the flight was canceled and I was desperate for any sort of lesbian energy. Pulling out my phone, I googled […]

One Love Hemp celebrates 420

April 20, 2019 Sponsored Content

Tell us about your business. What do you do? Why/How did it Start? Any details about the business itself you’d like us to know. One Love Hemp Dispensary is a woman owned and led business with it’s roots in Louisville’s local business community. Co-founder Nancy Roberts owned New Earth Organics and Hydroponics for thirty years, […]