Juan Pablo was an actor who didn’t feel the need to come out in public - until he found himself doing it in front of an audience.

For Jacq, stripping is a funny business.

Two brothers changed majors to follow their passion for photography. Together, they made a groundbreaking documentary about black queer families.

In her fetish photos, Kat connects to her womanhood by turning herself into an object of meditation.

In conservative Uganda, it’s not always easy for queer people to connect with each other. Kakyo helps them do it through fashion.

Tom of Finland was an artist whose queer erotic images have become iconic. For S.R. Sharp, that’s a legacy worth preserving.

They told her there were very few queer cartoonists of color. She proved them wrong and built a database full of them to share with the world.

Nearly six feet tall, bi, and black, Kai didn’t fit in traditional dance spaces. So she created one of her own.

A late-blooming surfer reminds us that you don’t have to be the best at something to enjoy it.

A professional football player lived in fear of coming out as bi. Falling in love with a man changed everything.

An Aussie macho man reflects on his time in the closet, and his decision to finally release the bi thunder from down under.

An athlete addresses the frustration of trying to compete when there isn’t a division for intersex people.

When an ice hockey player from the UK wanted to come out as bi, his biggest obstacle was the fear that his teammates would shun him.

Raised into a lifetime of playing sports, a veteran athlete explains why she wouldn’t have it any other way.

For this para-swimmer, living with a disability never meant living without sport.

A lifelong love of the sport made him a college wrestler. Homophobia in the locker room made him an advocate for LGBT visibility in sports.

As a teen, this footballer didn’t want to make a big deal about coming out. Turns out, it wasn’t.

Thanks to travel and Chinese heritage, a native-born Hong Konger has a complicated perspective on the politically divided city she loves.

An Arab can support Palestine without seeing Jews as the enemy. Shouldn’t he also be able to say so without being branded a traitor?

This South African is the product of three different tribes – her mother’s, her father’s, and hip hop.

For this DNA researcher, seeking answers about our origins is a natural instinct. Helping people find them is his calling.

Today, she’s a professional social worker with the respect of her colleagues and her clients. None of them suspect she used to be a stripper.

Her religion disapproves, but that doesn’t stop this devout Muslim woman from embracing her homosexuality.

Menstruation is a natural part of every woman’s life, but it was stigmatized in Namrata’s cultural traditions. A simple test was enough to prove them wrong.

This trans sex worker loves her job. She just wishes people would change their attitudes about it.

His South African tribes told him he had to de-queer himself in order to be accepted in his community, but they were wrong. All he had to do was move to the city.

A woman with a passion for seeing the world sings the praises of traveling alone.

It’s easy to assume non-monogamy makes a long-term relationship hard to achieve. For this happy polyamorist, it’s worth the effort.

Raising a child is a full-time job, but somebody’s got to do it — so, why does society still look down on stay-at-home dads?

When sex work is your side gig, kinky BDSM sessions are sometimes part of the job — and that’s how Damian found his inner dom.

Talking about infertility is hard when your culture stigmatizes it. That’s why Mrs. SM is doing it anyway.