About Queer Reflection

Queer Reflection is an immersive empathy platform that uses storytelling, AI, and emotional design to challenge and dismantle homophobia.

We believe change doesn’t start with facts—it starts with feeling. Our mission is simple: help people understand queer lives not by reading about them, but by experiencing them.

Through interactive story simulations based on real LGBTQ+ experiences, Queer Reflection invites users to step into moments of love, fear, joy, rejection, discovery, and resilience. Using AI personalization, cinematic narrative, and reflective feedback, we help rewire the way users perceive and connect with the LGBTQ+ community.

This isn’t a tolerance tool. It’s emotional transformation.

Why We Exist

Homophobia, bias, and erasure don’t always scream.

They whisper.

They show up in silence. In the awkward pause. In the lesson that never got taught. In the stories we were never allowed to finish.

Sometimes it’s not hate that hurts most—it’s absence. Of understanding. Of language. Of feeling.

Queer Reflection exists to close that gap.

To transform emotional distance into resonance.

To give people not just a story, but a seat at the table, a moment of reckoning, a choice to make—and the emotional imprint that stays with them long after the screen goes dark.

Because empathy isn’t a vibe. It’s a practice. And feeling what we feel is where it begins.

This was our first Encounter diagram/prototype.

What We Offer

At Queer Reflection, we combine immersive storytelling with intentional technology to make empathy real, actionable, and unforgettable.

Here’s what that looks like:

Interactive LGBTQ+ Story Modules
Users don’t just watch a story—they live it. Each experience invites them into pivotal queer moments where their choices shape the emotional tone, consequences, and connection.
Personalized Reflections & Empathy Feedback
After each encounter, users receive a soft-touch, AI-generated emotional breakdown of what they experienced—highlighting tone, tension, and underlying themes—paired with guided journaling to deepen self-awareness and perspective-taking.
Augmented Reality (AR) Experiences
Our AR layers allow users to unlock queer stories in physical spaces—turning a city sidewalk, classroom, or gallery into an empathy lab. These immersive touchpoints bring reflection off the screen and into the real world.
Companion Tools for Educators, DEI Teams & Community Leaders
Queer Reflection is built to serve as more than an individual experience. Our companion guides, facilitation prompts, and outcome-based frameworks are designed to support group learning, workshops, and empathy-building curriculum at scale.

Whether you’re an educator, an ally, a therapist, or just someone who’s ready to understand queer lives on a deeper level—we’re building the tools to help you start there. And stay there.

Our Vision

We envision a world where empathy is a skill, not a slogan—something practiced, nurtured, and measured by how we show up for one another.

A world where understanding queer lives isn’t seen as a political position, but as a human responsibility.

Where people don’t just learn about identity, but feel the weight of silence, the risk of truth, the power of being seen—and carry that awareness into how they love, teach, parent, vote, lead, and care.

Queer Reflection exists to create that shift. One moment. One story. One emotional connection at a time.

Created by LGBTQ+ Voices

Queer Reflection was founded by Bryan Alexander, a gay creative director and storyteller with a lifelong belief that stories—when told with honesty and depth—can change how people see the world and each other.

This project was never meant to speak about the queer community. It was meant to speak from it.

We stand on the shoulders of those who fought, dreamed, and dared before us—the activists, artists, thinkers, and truth-tellers whose lives we honor in our ongoing Reflections’ series, The Shoulders We Stand On. Their courage is not history alone; it is the foundation beneath every choice we make to keep going, to keep feeling, to keep telling the truth.

As poet and activist Audre Lorde reminds us:

“Without community, there is no liberation.”

That belief shapes everything we do.

Our growing team includes queer writers, artists, educators, technologists, and neuroscientists who understand that the most powerful engine for human change isn’t data or debate—it’s story. The kind of story that opens hearts. The kind that lingers. The kind that makes you feel something new.

Because empathy isn’t given. It’s built—through reflection, through connection, through the lives that light our way.