Nationwide Geographic has named a drag queen local weather activist, who performs beneath the title “Pattie Gonia,” as a “Traveler of the Year.”
The journal wrote that the drag queen, who additionally goes by the title “Wyn Wylie,” “helps LGBTQ+ youth discover the wonders of the outdoors. As founder of the nonprofit Outdoorist Oath, she brings the queer community together in the parks and wild spaces of Oregon, her home state.”
NEW: Woke Nationwide Geographic names drag queen and local weather activist Pattie Gonia Traveler of the 12 months 2024. pic.twitter.com/Uwj3n14pfm
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Nationwide Geographic continued, “Her feel-good music videos address environmental justice and pride in identity, and include collaborators such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Indigenous trans musician Quinn Christopherson.”
“Every year my community fundraises to send 10 queer youth on a fully scholarshipped backpacking trip,” Wylie instructed the journal. “One of the attendees told me and the group around the fire, ‘Being on this trip has helped me reclaim a childhood I didn’t get to have.’ That’s everything to me.”
Wylie additionally did an advert marketing campaign for North Face’s “Summer of Pride.”
The Publish Millenial reports, “National parks hosted Pattie Gonia for Pride Month in June to give tours. In a video, the drag queen posted at the time, saying, ‘We danced, we marched, we celebrated, and we got wet.’”
Delight occasion at Yosemite Nationwide Park: “Mother Nature is a lesbian.” pic.twitter.com/kdwdCERSQX
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“I am so proud of all my community organizers in the parks system who are making safe space for queer people all year round,” he says within the video.
