By Dakota Parks for Inweekly If the state of the world ever makes you feel like a feral animal backed in a corner baring your teeth, then...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly For the past 12 years, Stamped Film Festival has been a beacon of LGBTQ+ storytelling in the South, offering...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Ariel Mahler is an award-winning writer and director whose work explores the emotional and messy...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Laura Jane Grace isn’t just a punk icon; she’s a revolutionary voice in music and beyond. As the fierce and...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Over the centuries, queer history has often dwelled in obscurity—marginalized, overlooked and literally...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Internationally acclaimed director, writer, actor and transgender rights advocate Jake Graf is a force to be...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Since its inception in 2012, Stamped Film Festival has become a cultural cornerstone in Pensacola that...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Amid a political landscape marked by persistent threats to women’s and LGBTQ+ rights and the suppression of...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly Pride is more than just a celebration. For many, it is a place of refuge, a time to honor the rich history...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly While June commemorates the official start of Pride month, the celebrations in Pensacola always begin earlier. For decades, our local beach has been a hub of vibrant LGBTQ+ celebrations during Memorial Day weekend. These festivities date back to the 1960s, a turbulent time for the queer community, where gay men and women across the country sought refuge and community on Pensacola Beach. During this time, the fictional character of Emma Jones, crea

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly With Pride Month just around the corner, Pensacola’s vibrant art scene is gearing up for a celebration of...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly If you’ve been to a Pensacola Arts Market or Gallery Night, chances are you’ve seen Tyler Thomas slinging...

By Dakota Parks for Inweekly “Good and gay” is at the heart of what Sunday’s Child does. Since 2013, this philanthropic LGBTQ-focused nonprofit has been striving to make the Gulf Coast not just a better place for the queer community but a more inclusive, accepting and empathetic community for all. The original founders set out to promote wider visibility and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community—to show the Pensacola Bay Area that “gay is good”—by setting a philanthropic example

By Dakota Parks and staff for Pensacola Magazine Introduction by Dakota Parks There is a lot to love about Pensacola—from the iconic...

By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine and Coming of Age Magazine Although queer and transgender people have been present in films since the inception of cinema back in the 19th century, the way their stories and lives have been represented on screen has often been subject to gatekeeping. As a result of stigmatization and historic prejudice against the LGBT+ community, early cinema censored and created codes like Hollywood’s own Hays Code, which forbade explicit depictions o