Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.
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Denver’s storied tradition of sex work, then and now
In her new book, Michelle Gurule reveals her experience as a sugar baby and just how little has changed about the industry in the last century.
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
A hotshot’s search for belonging among the flames
A wildland firefighter reckons with the male-dominated culture found on the fireline.
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In Wyoming, forestry work is female
In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Forest Corps’ is filling federal agency gaps for Wyoming trail projects.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations
The passion of the Mormon feminist
For 50 years, ‘Exponent II‘ has made the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.
Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing
What a 9,000-mile butterfly migration taught me about queer survival
‘Painted ladies’ go through extraordinary journeys, kindred to that of many LTBTQ+ people.
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Endurance and the spirit of wrestling in the West
Remembering local wrestling hero Kenny Cox.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
Hate groups in western Washington echo the past
The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.
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A Salt Lake Valley collective brings gardening and queer communities together
At the Mobile Moon Co-op, LGBTQ+ folks find a safe space to nurture land and one another.
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California’s transgender Latinx people find refuge and empowerment in community
‘We are beginning to have that safety that we always desired.’
Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground
An ode to lesbians who showed the way
The photography series ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’ highlights women who serve as a model for others.
Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground
The desert’s Radical Faeries
How a gathering of gay men in the Sonoran Desert started a worldwide movement rooted in nature.
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The great Clean Girl vanishing act
The search for an ‘invisible’ perfume is rooted in frontier aesthetics.
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
Chef Preeti Mistry is changing the structure of food and fine dining
The award-winning, celebrity culinarian celebrates hybridness in life and cuisine.
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Solutions to the gender pay gap for Native women may live at home
Entrepreneurship alongside one’s caregiving responsibilities can unlock opportunities and more income.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
How the New Mexico whiptail became a gay icon
All members of the lizard species are female and reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis.
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Pro skier Lily Bradley disrupts mountain culture in new queer ski film
In ‘People Like Us,’ LGBTQ+ skiers take center stage.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
What the gray jay taught me about myself
The authenticity and playfulness of the naughty, queer bird is something to celebrate.
Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
‘I will grip onto this space as hard as I can because we need it’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.