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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.
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.
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Anthony Allen Ramos
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 GLAAD
You might recognize Anthony Allen Ramos from Access Hollywood, where he was an on-air personality and producer for more than six years. In 2017 Ramos joined the team at GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization. Now GLAAD’s vice president of communications and talent, he has engaged countless celebrities in GLAAD’s work, including Beyoncé, Madonna, Taylor Swift, and Billy Porter.
Ramos is also the executive producer of the GLAAD Media Awards, which is the largest and most visible LGBTQ+ charity event of the year. “I am so proud of how we use that stage to create unforgettable moments that truly make impact, including Beyoncé and Madonna speaking out against HIV stigma, Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider quizzing drag queens on queer history, and bringing together Ricky Martin and Bad Bunny to speak about breaking down barriers for LGBTQ people in Latinx culture,” says Ramos.
In the last several years, Ramos has also worked to make the country music industry more welcoming and inclusive of LGBTQ+ artists. “I’ve worked with some of country music’s most recognizable talent and behind-the-scenes leaders in the industry to speak out on LGBTQ issues in ways that combat the lies so many in the South and Midwest spread about our community,” says Ramos.
He recalls collaborating with Grammy-winning country artist and outspoken ally Maren Morris on a campaign to support trans people. “This was a moment for her fans and people who may not understand or know a trans person to have their hearts and minds opened up,” Ramos says. “You can’t deny the power of someone like Maren Morris publicly and authentically telling all of her millions of fans and followers that trans people deserve better and that they need to be treated equally and fairly.” @anthonyramosah