Pride and Joy tells the stories of queer citizens of the world living OUT and proud happy, fulfilling, successful lives — stories of success, happiness, and hope from the LGBT community. Stories that are diverse and global; famous and unsung.

Discover LGBT community stories that will stir you and reveal:

• why Tony Kushner quit cello and how Colm Toibin found his voice
  
• why Emma Donoghue calls her experience a fluke and the best advice Bill T. Jones got was from his mother
  
• how being an inaugural poet changed Richard Blanco’s life and how Ugandan activist “LongJones” escaped death threats and gained asylum.
  

Award-winning writer and longtime LGBTQ activist Kathleen Archambeau tells the untold stories from diverse LGBT community voices from around the corner or around the world. There is a story here for everyone in the LGBT community who has ever questioned their sexual orientation or gender identity, or discovered it.