Superhero: Brandyn Gallagher

 Brandyn Gallagher inducted into the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude in January 2016 in honor of his passionate advocacy for the inclusion of trans men in HIV prevention research. Brandyn (pictured here with fellow Superhero Damon Jacobs) is the founder of OutShine NW committed to access to high quality and gender affirming health care for all. I feel in love with Brandyn online and was not disappointed when we met face to face. Brandyn has the extraordinary ability to hold people accountable (including me) in a fierce and passionate way, yet create the safe space to allow growth and change. This is social change in action. Thank you, Brandyn, for creating a more inclusive world and participating in the dialogue to bring us all along. Much love.About the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude“The plain fact is that the world does not need more successful people, but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.” David OrrI deeply admire those who "live well in their places." The ordinary and the unsung who offer to the world the very best parts of themselves without expectation. This is a beautiful expression of love in her calm, persistent, generous manner - offering a ripple of change (a metamorphosis) to the world. Inductees to the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude are caped in recognition of their contributions to a love-filled world.