Sekou Luke
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Colman Domingo
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
Award-winning film, theater, and television artist and producer Colman Domingo has had quite the career, with credits ranging from Fear the Walking Dead and Euphoria to If Beale Street Could Talk and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. But Domingo began his career in the theater, which he credits with making him the actor he is today.
“I started in a small professional theater in San Francisco where I was encouraged to express myself in a myriad of ways, and never setting limits on my abilities,” says Domingo. “Instead, I used every ounce of who I am to interrogate the story and build tables around work that I wholeheartedly believe matters.”
Over the course of his storied career, Domingo has starred in several Broadway shows, including The Scottsboro Boys, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. He also wrote the book for 2018’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.
Domingo is proud of the animated short film he created with his husband called New Moon, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Academy Awards and is based on a short story in Domingo’s solo play A Boy and His Soul. And it’s a banner year for Domingo, who will also star as gay civil rights icon Bayard Rustin in Rustin and as Mister in The Color Purple, and release his film Sing Sing.
“I cannot wait to share my feature film Sing Sing with the world,” says Domingo. “This film is about how art has the power to heal and rehabilitate humans within the prison system. It is a useful tool to put a crack through the industrial prison complex.”
“The message that I would like to send to the world is very simple,” he adds. “We are. We exist. We love. Living your life, as you are, to the fullest is the best way to be.” @kingofbingo
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.