OUT TOGETHER

Once upon a time, I was a student activist. As president of our gay-straight alliance, I helped stage our college’s first LGBTQ+ rally, which brought together Greek houses, sports teams, and the greater student body. At that joyful display of queerness on the quad, I (and importantly, closeted young people) felt a culture shift from indifference and unwelcomeness to one of acceptance. The only problem? The college newspaper didn’t cover our event. Editors cited a conference they were attending that day as an excuse and then claimed the news cycle had moved on.

Daniel Reynolds

Afterward, I was sitting in our tiny office in the student center with a rainbow flag on the door and issues of Out and The Advocate on the table. I understood in that moment the great power of media to move hearts and minds — and of erasure to silence marginalized voices. I’d had enough. I opened my laptop and wrote my own damn article about the rally and then hijacked a campus copy machine to print a few hundred copies. My fearless GSA members and I were up all night inserting the coverage into every issue of the morning paper. Today, I have the great honor of staging another LGBTQ+ gathering in the very magazine that once inspired 20-year-old me to action. This is the 30th anniversary of the Out100,…

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OUT (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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