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Fran Tirado is an editor, creative director, and multimedia organizer. As an editor, she has helped radically rebrand magazines like Out, Hello Mr., and Gay Times to better reflect the intersectionality of the LGBTQ+ community. As a podcaster, she's launched and hosted four LGBTQ+ podcasts: Food 4 Thot, The Outcast, Queerly Beloved, and Like a Virgin. As a strategist, she's known for her corporate accountability work specific to Pride campaigns with brands like Google, HBO, Apple, Instagram, Nike. Most notably she led Netflix's LGBTQ+ audience engagement strategy where she created shows like I Like to Watch with Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolochikova. As an organizer, she's known as a lead organizer behind Brooklyn Liberation, the largest trans-centered protest in history, as well as Doll Invasion, an annual event galvanizing trans people to commute to Fire Island.

The New York Times called Fran a "Queer Champion.”

Early life and education

Activism and career

Work 2018 – Brooklyn magazine’s 30 Under 30 2020 – New York Magazine’s Encyclopedia of New York 2020 – Stonewall Vision Award 2020 – MTV’s inaugural Logo Legends honor