What better way to celebrate Pride week than to take a look back on L Style G Style stories that highlight some of the proudest moments in our LGBT community? These stories aren’t just about people, but their journeys and the sense of pride they’ve carried with them in hopes of helping and inspiring others. Here are some of the Pride stories that we’ve chronicled over the years.
Photo courtesy of Benny VandenAvond
Transforming Austin Pride
Pride is often likened to gay Christmas—one big event that you’ve waited all year long to celebrate. In that case, Austin PRIDE may be more like gay Hanukkah, because it’s an entire week-long celebration and you get a really cool present every single day. Austin PRIDE would not be nearly as big or as fun if the Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation (AGLPF) wasn’t involved…. READ MORE
Image provided by Amanda Guilbeau and Kristen Klein
From Pride Fest to Couch Potato
Amanda Guilbeau and Kristen Klein have a solid decade of love and life experiences under their belts. They moved back to Austin, the city where they met, after spending five years in San Diego and have started a business together.Their clever idea—delivery meets the best guilty pleasures of your favorite convenient store—is where these two are pouring all their energy… READ MORE
Photography by Michael Thad Carter
Pride and Patronage
Chad Peevy is vocal about the fact that queer money talks. as president of the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (AGLCC), Peevy is at the helm of an organization that’s building awareness of the power of voting with dollars… READ MORE
Photo from Pride Socks Facebook page
A Sense of Pride
Socks are more than just an ordinary article of clothing for Rachel Smith. Growing up in a household of seven with few resources, she didn’t know what it meant to have her own pair of matching socks. She also didn’t know what it meant to feel a sense of pride in herself….READ MORE
Photography by Michael Thad Carter
Proud to Serve
When Machin McHargue returned to the U.S. from an eight-month deployment as a trauma room medic at a hospital in Mosul, Iraq, in the midst of that country’s chaos and sectarian reprisals leading up to nationwide elections in 2004, her mother said that something in her eyes had changed. “She actually told me, you’re not my little girl anymore.” READ MORE
Photo taken by Steven Solidarious.
A Wedding to Remember
Asha Hill and Valencia Walker had all the reason in the world to be the happiest couple to get hitched this year. The day was absolutely perfect – summertime-blue skies, a generous breeze paired with the lucent sun and most welcoming, pride flags proudly waving in between the rays of sunlight outside of San Francisco’s City Hall… READ MORE
Photography by Michael Thad Carter
All You Need Is Love
On a visit to Chicago in September 2006, Consuelo Allen helped a friend prepare a special dinner party – a sort of early Thanksgiving feast. The one-time actor who had spent a good part of her adult life living and working in the Windy City always enjoyed these visits, surrounded by friends, good food and the fast-paced culture of the big city…READ MORE
