02 — Community project
After Pride
After Pride serves LGBTQIA+ people 50 and older, preserving lived experience and making storytelling accessible to a generation whose histories were rarely written down as they happened.
Why it exists
A generation that was there
The people this project serves lived through decades that changed public life, often without anyone recording what it cost or what it felt like. Some kept their histories private out of necessity. Some outlived the friends who would have remembered with them. The result is a gap in the cultural record that closes a little more every year.
After Pride treats those accounts as primary sources worth keeping — not as content, and not as anyone's marketing.
How it works
Accessible by design
The project is led with Demetrius A. Bady, the Institute's Chief Narrative Officer, whose thirty years in television and documentary work shape how the sessions are run and how a story is drawn out with care.
After Pride runs on the community track: the Institute's storytelling technology is made available for cultural, educational, and community use at free or low cost, so participation doesn't depend on being able to buy software.
Participants own their stories, can take their material elsewhere, and decide for themselves whether anything is shared beyond the project. Their stories are never used to train models.
Project home
afterpride.com
After Pride has its own home at afterpride.com.
Related initiatives
Commercial product
Reflections
A storytelling product that helps people capture and organize personal and family stories, so a life's record holds together instead of scattering across drawers, drives, and memory.
Collaboration with Mental Foundation
Companion Experience
Everyday companionship built around a person's own routines — conversation, a game of chess late at night, and staying close to family — with technology kept in service of human relationships.