Welcome to The Day's special section, More than a Month: Pride. The More than the Month quarterly editions are designed to take a deeper look at historically marginalized communities.

In this special section, we learn more about our neighbors in the the LGBTQIA+ community. Not sure what LGBTQIA+ means? I'd recommend that you first read our glossary of gender and sexuality terms. This will help you when you read our other stories. I know it helped me.

We feature stories on local businesses, unique challenges that the community faces and how members of the LGBTQIA+ community helped change local and national history.

You'll also find a love story and what it truly means to be an ally of the community.

I hope you will enjoy this section and keep an eye out for future editions of More than a Month, featuring Hispanic Heritage and Native Americans.

If you have any story ideas that you feel I should know about, please reach out to me at i.larraneta@theday.com.

Thank you,

Izaskun E. Larrañeta, managing editor and chair of The Day's Diversity Committee