Cheddar News is continuing our celebration of Pride Month as we highlight trail blazers throughout the LGBTQ+ community. Cheddar's own Baker Machado recently had the opportunity to sit down with the editor-in-chief of Them, a magazine that covers everything from culture to politics to fashion within the LGBTQ+ community.



<div class="block">Cheddar News is continuing our celebration of Pride Month as we highlight trail blazers throughout the LGBTQ+ community. Cheddar&#39;s own Baker Machado recently had the opportunity to sit down with the editor-in-chief of <i>Them</i>, a magazine that covers everything from culture to politics to fashion within the LGBTQ+ community. </div>

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Celebrating Pride With the Editor-in-Chief of 'Them' 

All right, switching gears. Jetter News is continuing our celebration of Pride Month that as we highlight trail blazers all throughout the LGBT Q community. And I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the editor in chief of them magazine. It covers everything from culture to politics to fashion all within the LGBT Q community. Take a look from the very beginning. The intention was to create a platform that had a foundation of inclusivity and intersectionality across the entire LGBT Q plus spectrum, right? So really to tell those stories and to represent those people who maybe didn't necessarily feel heard yet, even within queer media. So that has been kind of the core of I think what has allowed them to grow such a loyal and engaged audience, right? If you go to the Instagram, it really feels like a community. People are debating, people are affirming each other, they're king, they're telling jokes, that kind of thing. Have you sort of seen the evolution of this publication sort of change over the years? And where do you want to sort of take them to me being queer is so much more than an identity and a label, right? It's truly a daily act of rebellion. And we have to every single day break the mold to just to be ourselves, right? Just to move through the world as who we are. And that really creates a kind of innovation and resourcefulness necessarily and innately, right? And I really believe that LGBT Q plus people because of that, in part, have always been at the forefront of cultural change, of political change, of defining what it means to be human, you know, for everyone, right. So beyond, you know, telling the crucial stories that need to be told, celebrating our joy. I'm also very focused on wanting to celebrate the influence that queer people have beyond just, you know, within our own community. On the flip side, we're seeing more anti LGBT Q legislation being passed than I think most of us have ever seen in our lifetimes, especially now in 2023. Do you almost feel like at this moment these, these stories are even more paramount now to be telling because of all of this anti LGBT Q laws we're sitting being passed. Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, there's also so much noise right now, right? And to be honest, it feels like there's a real lack of unity, so much of what we talk about and what I try to nurture in us as a team is thinking about how do we cut through the noise and make sure that we're always keeping our readers in mind, in terms of what they actually need to hear right now and what's actually gonna feel useful to them in terms of how we're all gonna get through this together. What does Pride Month mean specifically to you? We've seen quite a bit of wavering on the part of um corporations, right, in terms of support for the LGBT Q plus community, this pride and that's been really, really disheartening, but I think it's also brought us back, right, as a reminder to the root of pride, which is one, obviously a riot, a protest for our rights, which is more necessary than it has been in a long time this year, right? But also a celebration of how we are our own best allies, right? We are here to support each other. Um and as useful as it is to have, you know, other people at our back to have big companies, you know, taking a stand for us, ultimately, what we really need to rely on is each other. And I think that that's really, really something beautiful to celebrate. And our thanks to Sarah uh Burke for that discussion. And I think that was really sort of timely given the fact of what's going with Bud Light Target, you know, the Los Angeles Dodgers, so many things over the course of the last little while.