09/23/2026
🩵 **Visibility is more than being seen — it is being remembered, respected, and cared for.**
For Native American Day, Tony’s Place is celebrating Native q***r and Two-Spirit people whose leadership, art, scholarship, advocacy, and stories remind us that LGBTQ+ identities are part of Indigenous history, the present, and the future.
👉 Swipe through to meet some of the people whose work continues to create visibility, preserve history, and make space for the generations coming after them.
Honoring community also means talking about the inequities that still exist. In 2024, American Indian and Alaska Native people experienced a new HIV diagnosis rate of **9.2 per 100,000 people — nearly twice the rate among White Americans at 4.8 per 100,000.**
These disparities are not about anyone’s worth, identity, or culture. They are connected to barriers like stigma, discrimination, limited access to testing and prevention, and a lack of culturally responsive healthcare.
At Tony’s Place, celebrating diversity means making room for the full range of identities, histories, cultures, and experiences within our LGBTQ+ community — and making sure care comes without shame.
**Knowing your status is healthcare. PrEP is healthcare. HIV treatment is healthcare. U=U is science. Living with HIV is never something to be ashamed of.**
💬 Which person in this carousel did you learn something new about — or whose story do you want to learn more about? Drop their name below, save this post, and share it so these stories reach someone new.
**History deserves to be remembered. Identity deserves to be respected. Healthcare deserves to be accessible.**
