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Brent Miller
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
If you’ve ever seen a positive portrayal of LGBTQ+ people in an advertisement, chances are Brent Miller had something to do with it.
An advocate for the accurate and authentic portrayal of the LGBTQ+ community in media and advertising, Miller is currently the senior director for global LGBTQ+ equality at Procter & Gamble. Recently, he also partnered with GLAAD to establish the Visibility Project to bring together the world’s top brands and ad agencies to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion in advertising.
“I tell the stories of who we are as a community, linked to ways companies build business and growth,” says Miller. “By creating an inherent connection between the two, we build a valuable relationship that connects the advancement of LGBTQ+ equality with business that we can sustain over time.”
Over the last 24 years in the industry, Miller has worked to create award-winning LGBTQ-inclusive campaigns for brands like Head & Shoulders and Pantene. But his work has also gone beyond the advertising world.
In 2020 Miller created a benefit show called Can’t Cancel Pride to help raise money for the LGBTQ+ community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four years later, the virtual benefit is still going strong. It has raised more than $14 million to support LGBTQ+ organizations and involved celebrities like JoJo Siwa, Big Freedia, Adam Lambert, Ciara, and Brandi Carlile. Miller also produced a series of films with CNN’s Great Big Story and was the executive producer of the GLAAD Award-winning short documentary Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker.
“We’re a community that knows how to persevere, and we have an obligation to deeply understand the uniqueness, complexities, and incredible diversity within ourselves,” says Miller. “When we do that, we all benefit, because we’re creating stronger relationships, communities, and companies that move us forward.” @brent.r.miller
Courtesy of Maeve DuVally
Maeve DuVally
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
Courtesy of Maeve DuVally
For 18 years, Maeve DuVally worked at Goldman Sachs as the managing director of communications. But it wasn’t until 15 years into her role that DuVally was able to enter the workplace as herself: a “transgender woman who had thought herself a man for the first 56 years of her life.”
It was 2019 when she first introduced herself to her colleagues as Maeve DuVally. The decision to come out at work had been sparked by a panel sponsored by Goldman Sachs’s LGBTQ+ affinity network on how to make the workplace more comfortable for transgender people. DuVally first realized she was trans in October 2018, after becoming sober in January of the same year.
“Getting sober in 2018 was the most harrowing and difficult accomplishment of my life so far. I believe I would be dead if I hadn’t succeeded or at the very least, I would not have realized who I am and there would be no Maeve,” says DuVally. “I had to go to the brink and look into the abyss of death before making a decision to live sober.”
A few months after coming out at Goldman, DuVally was the subject of a New York Times article, which profiled her first few days of being out at work. In 2022 she left Goldman to consult for corporations and other organizations on communications strategy and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In 2023 she published a memoir called Maeve Rising, which chronicles her struggles with alcohol and her very public coming-out.