Outword's Annual Homes and Gardens issue is Out Now!
“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.” Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz
“There’s no place like home.” Our domiciles, our personal habitat and space. In this issue, we’ve compiled a plethora of home and garden-related stories, and present them right here in our annual special issue.
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Visibility Matters | Trans Day of Visibility 
By Alexis Sanchez
Director of Advocacy and Training
Sacramento LGBT Community Center
Visibility is a double-edged sword for transgender people. We see this playing out as openly transgender people are being elevated to statehouses and federal offices and taking major roles in television in cinema. While some of the community are seeing opportunities that weren’t available a decade ago, others are being disproportionally affected as this new visibility has made them the target of hate and attempts to legislate them out of existence. Visibility can be dangerous for those of us who live in conservative states, or those with intersecting marginalized identity.
Solidarity.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s difficult and somber to face a topic that we can’t understand. The uptick in hatred, hostility, and violence against the Asian Americans is not only senseless, but incomprehensible.
“Trusted Messengers” Key To Vaccinating Under-Served Communities
by: Christopher J. Beale for Outword Magazine
For street-level organizations working to vaccinate under-served communities in Sacramento County, vaccine availability isn’t the biggest hurdle they face. Misinformation, digital and language barriers, economic issues, and general distrust of the government are keeping members of the Native, LGBT, Asian and communities of color in Sacramento County from getting vaccinated.
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Springing into Action (like Tigger) with a Bouncy New Issue!
Typically, this issue is our Annual Travel Issue. However, since travel is just not back to normal yet, we present you with the “Travel Lite” issue. It has half the fat and calories of our regular travel issue, yet we have “beefed” it up with what we hope you will find interesting and useful content!
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