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Part of celebrating Pride is remembering the progress that’s been made. Harper Watters, River Gallo, Eva Reign, Jared Egusa, and Caleb Boyles—Youth To The People's With Pride campaign collaborators—shared their collective memories from President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union.

When you wake up with dehydrated skin, it feels like there’s no quick fix or easy way out. When you haven’t been drinking enough water or when traveling, changing climate, or caffeine consumption get in the way, your skin can feel tight, irritated, and inflamed. If you’ve been experiencing dehydration long enough to have a name for it, you’re probably already wondering how to get rid of it, and fast. 

River Gallo is a Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, and intersex advocate with interACT. In 2019, Gallo won the GLAAD Media Rising Star Award. They are the CEO and co-founder of Gaptoof Entertainment, a multimedia production house in Los Angeles with a focus on intersectionality and narrative inclusivity, including for people of color, womxn, and those who identify at LGBTQIA+. Gallo also collaborated with YTTP to celebrate Pride this year. Get to know them a little better here.

One day it dawned on me that if my feminism can be intersectional, so can my environmentalism. So I decided to define the term Intersectional Environmentalism as this: an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet.

Gia Woods is a queer woman, a musician who grew up in a traditional Persian household. With the release of her first EP, Cut Season, Woods performs a mental spring cleaning, diving into issues of ego, bad habits, and naivety. Released today, the music video for “Naive,” sees Woods melding the darkest parts of her life with the performative, cinematic world of pop in a video she co-directed with Jenna Marsh.

Say goodbye to fine lines and dull skin with a vitamin your skin loves—vitamin C. There’s a reason it is so popular in skincare, between its firming, brightening, and antioxidizing benefits. As Laura Cline, Youth To The People’s Director of Education, asks, “What doesn’t it do?” 

Jared Egusa is an Asian American artist and actor based in Los Angeles. Inspired by Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art which translates to "pictures of the floating world," Egusa embeds his own identity into his artwork. This year, he collaborated with Youth To The People to commemorate Pride.  

Part of celebrating Pride is remembering the progress that’s been made. Here are the collective memories of the collaborators of Youth To The People's With Pride campaign around a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court, a victory dubbed Love Wins.

This Pride Month, this Father’s Day, Youth To The People spoke with Jason Knight, who is gay, is white, and is married to a Black man named Liron. Together, they have three adopted children. In some senses, it's wholly traditional: two parents and a few kids. But it took some time and work to get there.

To most, Juneteenth is known as an African-American day of celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It occurs annually on June 19th. “Juneteenth” is a joyful portmanteau signifying that day.  It’s also known as “Freedom Day,” and some have called it the second Independence Day. But is it, really?

For most of my life, I’d felt, at best, reduced by the label “male,” and at worst, misgendered. All around me, it seemed people were having the same conversations with themselves that I’d been having for years. Rather than hide any aspect of myself, I decided to honor every part of myself, every layer of my identity. I’m a human being; my existence is reason enough for affirmation.