The Story of the Billboards, and where we are today.
The Billboard Project of Have A Gay Day Inc started in 2022 when the founder of Have A Gay Day went to a local school board meeting and listened to parents speak against kids for four hours. Hate, and more hate and it felt like it was never going to end. Many thoughts went through his mind and in the face of so much hate the thought came to mind of something kind. Why not send messaging to the trans community of kindness and love. So, a partnership was made with a trans artist, a supportive billboard company, PFLAG National, and a community of Have A Gay Day Inc. In 2022 and 2023 over 700 digital billboards rotated millions of times across the USA including airports and even times square in New York. Messaging may seem so small but in some spaces the messaging created hopes, and love, and stories of change. In the middle of so many laws against the trans community this was different. We do not share the locations of the billboards for their safety and for our community safety but we try to create an annual fundraiser and rotate billboards for months at a time through over 2,000 locations. We also are always looking for partners in this work. If you have any questions, please let us know.
News and Media Articles
PFLAG National
PFLAG National Joins Have A Gay Day Campaign To Uplift LGBTQ+ Voices Nationwide – PFLAG
WYSO
Gay advocacy group is using billboards to counteract hurtful messages | WOSU Public Media
The Buckeye Flame
The viral, trans visibility billboard campaign by an Ohio LGBTQ+ org just gained a *major* new partner – The Buckeye Flame
WCPO
Dayton-based organization spreads love in Cincinnati with LGBTQ-themed billboards (wcpo.com)
WHIO
“You are Loved;” Local nonprofit shows support for LGBTQ community with billboards – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio
Featured Billboard Partner
For the last few years Rae Senarighi has been a driving force with messages of love and kindness to the Trans Community. Through advocacy, visibility, and meaningful impactful art they have allowed us to share their messaging with the world. Our billboard campaigns would have never gone as far as they do today without their partnership. Please visit their site, send them love, and if you see their billboards please send them all the photos you can.
Rae Senarighi / AKA Transpainter is your average non-binary cancer survivor inspiring self-compassion, activism and gender resilience via unapologetic portraiture and typography. Currently residing in Madison, WI, Rae champions storytelling through art, working to create accurate and celebratory representation of the transgender and non-binary community in the fine art world and beyond. He is on a mission to spread self-acceptance and love, as is evident in his portraiture, typography and speaking engagements. Rae believes that trust and self-love are vital to the journey of understanding and accepting his own identity, hoping to remind others to not only love themselves, but to celebrate and lift up their respective communities. Rae’s work has been featured internationally through media and news outlets, including Netflix and GLAAD, DNA India and more. He has toured with his art to ten states and 17 different locations and counting.
