Pride Month: Creatives Tyris Winter & Mich Miller on How Far the Queer Community Has Come

For Pride Month, FN is spotlighting LGBTQIA+ executives, entrepreneurs and designers as part of its ongoing commitment to champion diversity across all areas of the footwear business. While the celebration of Pride Month every year is a joyous occasion, this year’s festivities feel bigger, more impactful and meaningful. “It feels more celebratory than ever,” Mich Miller, a Los Angeles-based painter, printmaker and muralist tells FN. “I think that there’s a lot of threading through time that’s happening — an example of that being COVID-19 was very much a mirror of AIDS, and for a lot of young people they really don’t have a way to connect or relate to how that was. Millions of people passed away — mostly queer people and [now] coming out of a really hard time and having experienced a large loss as a nation, I think that resilience and the celebration in that and coming back together after isolation heightens Pride for me and for us.” Fellow artist and also dancer and fashion enthusiast Tyris Winter echoed similar sentiments, expressing: “Pride Month is definitely a celebration of where we’ve come from and where we’re going to go… especially coming out of the pandemic.” Both Miller and Winter starred in

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