Stolichnaya presents Be Real: Stories from Queer America

Oraia Reid is the energetic and determined executive director of Right Rides, an organization she founded in 2004 with her partner, Consuelo Ruybal. Right Rides is a community-based organization that gives free, safe, late-night rides home to women and woman-identified transgender...

Red's story of gender and gender power examines a personal transition from the lesbian community to the larger arena of women's issues and the "trans" community and all its complexities. As a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Chicago, Red's research about the history of Las...

All his life, David faced and accepted the challenge of being stereotyped. He was handsome, fit, articulate, and in possession of numerous professional and artistic achievements. At the pinnacle of his success, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. When he found himself gravely ill and 79 pounds, he...

From an outside perspective, Trae's account might appear to be a fairy tale of privilege and affluence, but it was Trae's authenticity that created the storybook ending. Instead of hiding from his family and community, he came out about who he is and joined the family business, putting him at the...

This story is one of religion, rejection, and redemption. As the child of Southern fundamentalists, Ross grew up in the most conservative of households and communities. He attended the fundamentalist church schools from junior high through graduate school, always feeling that he didn't fit in....

Beautiful, brainy, and completely surprising, Mignon Moore is a professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Mignon earned her doctorate at the University of Chicago and has the distinction of receiving the Russell Sage Scholars Award, one of the most prestigious post-graduate awards in academia....