Friends We Follow

Aisha and Danielle Moodie-Mills, the first lesbian newlyweds to be featured in ESSENCE.com's Bridal Bliss, are rising stars in Washington, D.C. where they labor together in their passions and politics. Earlier this year, the power couple founded a website called threeLOL and is dedicated to “living, loving, and laboring out loud.” Check them out!

Too often the voices of bisexual men and women are rendered silent. It's also common for members of the lesbian, gay, and transgender community to discriminate against their bi brothers and sisters. Adrienne Williams (pictured right), founder of the Bi Social Network, created an outlet to address the needs of this frequently overlooked segment of our community. Check it out!

ELIXHER caught up with Shawn Smith from Her Saturn Returns, "an outlet to explore the rupture of self-realization in the transition to our 30th year through poetry, the written word, our stories."