In this Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" spotlight, we meet Terrance Alan, CEO of Flore Dispensary. A longtime cultivator and political advocate, Alan has helped form the heart of San Francisco's legal cannabis industry in the city's famed LGBTQIA+ district The Castro.
In this Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" spotlight, we meet Joyce Cenali, COO of Sonoma Hills Farm. A longtime craft cannabis cultivator and industry leader, she talks about investing in women and LGBTQIA-led businesses and being a champion for the plant.
In this Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" spotlight, we meet Andres Rigal and Taylor Bazley, co-founders of Green Qween. The Los Angeles dispensary supports LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC cannabis brands, and gives back to the local community.
In this Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" spotlight, we meet Nancy Do, founder and CEO of Endo Industries. She talks about being a social equity and legacy operator, supporting LGBTQIA+ businesses, and upcoming partnerships.
In this Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" spotlight, we meet Lex Corwin, founder and CEO of Stone Road. He talks about highlighting queer talent in cannabis marketing, the magic of the plant in culture, and helping homeless LGBTQIA+ youth.
In this Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" spotlight on an LGBTQIA+ leader in cannabis, we meet Andrea Brooks, founder and CEO of Sava. She talks about finding healing with the plant, creating a highly curated e-commerce platform for cannabis, and more.
Honeysuckle kicks off Trailblazers' Authentic Voices: Pride '22 "Sweet Sixteen" series of LGBTQIA+ leaders in cannabis with Alexander Farnsworth, founder and CEO of Farnsworth Fine Cannabis. He talks about launching the Queer Cannabis Club, supporting the Trevor Project, and more.
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This year, the Queer Liberation March is being held again, this time representing the Black Lives Matter movement as a form of protest. Protesting for human rights is a meaningful way to spend Pride if you are looking for a way to fight for human rights.
Due to Covid-19, many have been forced to move into non-affirming spaces. A non-affirming space might look like an environment that is not positively receiving or supportive of LGBTQIA+ individuals.
In honor of Pride Month, we take a trip back to a personal remembrance of sex and cannabis. Sex and love might not always be the same in every relationship, but we celebrate them in all their forms. To those in the LGBTQ community, you are seen, heard, and very much loved.
ride month is necessary to recognize that Pride intrinsically means dismantling the white hegemony and the dominant culture; it also means shunning capitalism’s co-option of our contemporary LGBTQIA+ movement.
We envision a world where Black mamas have the rights, respect, and resources to thrive before, during, and after pregnancy.
When I was coming out, I never could have imagined that my mom had been on the front lines like that, that she’d witnessed true horror. It’s possible she’s done more for my community than I ever will.
Every plant has a spirit. There’s an herb store I used to go into to gather plant materials to make various concoctions, and I started to notice that each bin or jar of herbs had a distinct personality, and some would actually call out to me.
