LGBTQIA+ stories after 50
Your story
belongs here.
A home for the stories, memories, and lived experience of LGBTQIA+ people 50 and over.
Our purpose
We’re here for the whole, vivid truth of a life.
Friendships that changed us. Loves we found and lost. Chosen families, favorite songs, hard-won freedoms, inside jokes, ordinary Tuesdays—and all the ways we keep becoming ourselves.
Too much LGBTQIA+ life has been overlooked by official history. After Pride makes room for people to tell their own stories, in their own voice, with joy, complexity, and dignity intact.
Your story, your way
Storytelling with room to breathe.
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A conversation at your pace
You set the rhythm. There is room to pause, remember, laugh, circle back, and tell things in the order that feels right to you.
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Decide what to preserve
A friendship, a love, a place, a turning point, or the texture of an ordinary day—what matters is yours to name.
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Choose what to share
Preserving a story does not make it public. You decide what remains private, what travels with you, and what others may hear.
A promise, not fine print
Your life is yours. So is your story.
Story preservation begins with trust. You choose the pace, the boundaries, and the audience—if there is an audience at all.
Read our stewardship principlesYou own your stories
You choose what to share
Your stories stay portable
No AI training on personal stories
Built with perspective
Story craft meets lived history.
After Pride is associated with Life Stories Institute, which invests in technology for capturing and organizing human stories. After Pride applies that mission to this community in a voice and visual life all its own.
Founder Demetrius A. Bady brings three decades of television writing, producing, and documentary work to a deeply personal purpose: preserving lives too often overlooked by official history.
Meet our founder