Amanda Beres

Since we launched, Women We Love, which includes cisgender and transgender women across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, has featured nearly 2,000 women, each of whom has worked in her own way to make her community, her state, her country, or the larger global environment a better and more inclusive place for us all.

GO Magazine is proud to present 100 Women We Love, a celebration of out, proud, and amazing women who continue to make our world a better place.

Imara Jones “The desire to know what’s true, to understand it, and then the need to inform others about what I have come to know is what led me to […]

Tiffany Cabán After serving for nearly a decade as a public defender, Tiffany Cabán ran for Queens District Attorney in 2019. “Initially, I ran because three of my homegirls urged […]

Dana Bolles Working with NASA has its perks, says Dana Bolles, a 27-year veteran with the venerated organization. As a child, she was fascinated with space and now, “I get […]

Maura Healey Although originally from New Hampshire, Maura Healey has made a name for herself in neighboring Massachusetts: initially, as the first out Attorney General in the country, and now […]

Heather Leigh Cullum “I’m only 27, but they say age is just a number, right?” asks Heather Leigh Cullum. She’s already accomplished a lot. Cullum has worked as a freelance […]

Paula Boggs Throughout her childhood and teenage years, music had been central to Paula Boggs “until it wasn’t,” the singer/songwriter tells GO. Despite her early devotion to music, Boggs, a […]

Cindy Buckmaster Dr. Cindy Buckmaster is not an advocate for animal-based research, but she is an advocate “for the strongest science possible and, unfortunately, that still requires research with animals,” […]

Storme Webber “My grandmother set me on this road,” poet and interdisciplinary artist Storme Webber tells GO. It was her grandmother’s “insistence upon joy and creativity [that] made my life […]

Andrea Jenkins “I had worked in municipal government for many years,” Andrea Jenkins tells GO, “never really considering running [for office] myself, but in 2016, when America elected an orange […]

Caroline Earleywine “I used to have to really help students unpack what they’d been taught about poetry, that it’s a riddle that has one right answer, that if you don’t […]

Kataluna Enriquez Kataluna Enriquez scored a big win for trans visibility when she was crowned Miss Nevada in 2021, and became the first out trans woman to compete in the […]

Alexandria Hollett “Being a queer woman is a gift, and my activism, art, teaching, and scholarship are impacted not just because I’m queer in terms of my sexuality, but because […]

Joy Chia “My career has taken quite a lot of twists and turns,” Joy Chia tells GO, “but a thread that runs through all of my experiences is that I […]

Natasha Jones For Natasha Jones, the most rewarding part of her job “is watching a young person connect with the com- munity in a way that is affirming, safe, and […]

Siobhan Fahey Creative producer Siobhan Fahey is what you’d call an accidental archivist. As a self-described “radical punk dyke” who lived in London during the 1980s, “I realized that our […]

Hilary Price For award-winning cartoonist Hilary Price, the most rewarding part of her job is “when someone reads my cartoon and says, ‘That is SO true,’” she tells GO. “It […]

Lori Torres “I started LasReinasNYC for our Latina community because I realized that as large as we were in the scene, we didn’t have venues or bars that catered to […]

I.S. Jones “Writing grounds me in the physical world,” I.S. Jones tells GO. “It’s the filter by which I make sense of myself and everything around me.” For the poet, […]

Dana Rudolph “Becoming a mom channeled my interests specifically into LGBTQ family issues,” writer and out parenting blogger Dana Rudolph tells GO. After leaving her job with Merrill Lynch to […]

Haylie McCleney Professional softball player Haylie McCleney takes pride in inspiring the next group of female athletes. “I take my responsibility as a role model very seriously,” she tells GO, […]

Gabi Meit & Shanna Sciara Gabi Meit (l) and Shanna Sciara (r) love to travel the world. But when researching possible places to go, “it became really clear that there […]

Daryn Carp “I can almost pinpoint the exact moment where I knew I wanted to be in television: I was seven years old,” reality TV and podcast host Daryn Carp […]

Ayana Omilade Flewellen As a student of history, anthropologist Ayana Omilade Flewellen appreciates every artifact she finds on an archaeological excavation. “Every button, piece of ceramic, bead, glass fragment,” they […]

Braunwyn Windham-Burke Reality TV star, activist, and mother Braunwyn Windham-Burke wants to make a positive impact on the world. A housewife of 19 years, she was excited by the opportunity […]

Rachel Karp, Sarah Gabrielli & Jen McGinity The idea for the podcast Cruising came to co-creators Rachel Karp (l), Sarah Gabrielli (c), and Jen McGinity (r) on New Year’s Eve […]

Donna Loring Donna Loring has been many things in her lifetime: a Vietnam veteran; a Maine state legislator; an Indigenous Persons advocate. “The various paths I have chosen, I chose […]

  Lea DeLaria What has been the most rewarding aspect of Lea DeLaria’s career, other than the attention it earns her from the ladies? “That I have been able to […]

Alejandra Caraballo “When I was doing direct legal services, my clients were some of the most inspiring people given everything they’ve gone through,” Alejandra Caraballo, a Clinical Instructor at Harvard […]