Our Mission
To cultivate intergenerational community and preserve LGBTQ+ history through oral story sharing. We produce and film live storytelling events and facilitate programs to foster connection and empathy across all ages, classes, and sexual and gender identities.
Board of Directors
Grete Miller (she/they)
Grete is a documentarian, archival storyteller & LGBTQ+ activist, driving positive change across product, media and advocacy. They’re a Sr. CXOPS Specialist & Acting Product Manager at Shutterstock, where she co-founded and led their LGBTQ+ ERG & DEI council. As an internal DEI strategist, they've shaped inclusive visual storytelling, user and workplace policies and written on intersectional queer content development for the Shutterstock Blog. Grete is a longtime advocate for preserving LGBTQ+ history, queering content management, and making the invisible, visible.
Melissa Sklarz (she)
Melissa Sklarz became the first trans person in New York to run for public office when she ran for state assembly in 2018. She is currently an elected District Leader, representing the 30th AD, Part B in Queens. She is a former president of Stonewall Democrats of NYC and a past Board Co-Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda.
Thom Kam (he)
A native of Honolulu and a resident of NYC since the early 80s, Thom has moved through multiple careers and is currently an AVP at Wells Fargo. A veteran of more than a dozen AIDS Rides from Boston to NY, he also carries the title of Mr. Eagle NYC 2019.
Fernando Mariscal (he)
Fernando has been involved in social and human rights advocacy since an early age. He is one of the founding members of MHOL, the first LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Peru. He later became an AIDS activist and co-founded the ACT UP Latina/o Caucus in NY. He currently works as a Program Director at Community Access Inc., a non-profit organization providing housing and advocacy for people living with mental health concerns.
David Kennerley (he)
David is a freelance advertising copywriter and journalist specializing in LGBTQ culture. For nearly two decades, he has been an Arts & Entertainment reporter for Gay City News, the NYC-based LGBTQ newspaper and website. He is currently developing an illustrated book chronicling a history of queer nightclubs in New York.
TGP Team
Wes Enos
Executive Director
Summer Minerva
Program Facilitator / Event Emcee
Kyanda Cruz
Program Facilitator / Event Emcee
Valerio Moraga
Program Facilitator
Quinta Felton
Program Facilitator
Noah Strote
Director of Development
Nessa Norich
Program Facilitator
Castrata
Emcee
Emil Cohen
Pro-Bono Photographer