Psychedelic Pride: The LGBTQIA+ Psychedelic Experience (Dallas) June2025

🌟Join us at Psychedelic Pride to create art and embark on a powerful exploration of the intersection of queer identity and psychedelic healing, featuring Maya Amélie Seale — a groundbreaking transgender researcher and speaker at Psychedelic Science 2025. With deep roots in neuroimaging and gender-expansive psychometrics, Maya brings a uniquely insightful lens to how psychedelics can support the mental health and spiritual resilience of LGBTQ+ communities. Her work delves into how substances like MDMA can reduce minority stress and promote authentic self-connection, particularly for trans and nonbinary individuals.

In a time when queer and trans people face heightened mental health disparities and societal pressure, Maya’s research offers a hopeful, evidence-based vision of psychedelic therapy as a pathway to healing, self-compassion, and community empowerment. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the emerging science behind psychedelics, how it uniquely applies to queer experiences, and the importance of inclusive research and therapeutic models. Come be part of a vibrant conversation that centers queer voices and honors the transformative potential of psychedelic medicine.

🌟Speaker

Maya Amélie Seale Maya (she/her) is a white, able-bodied woman of trans experience & person with OCD. In psychedelia, Maya has been a Fireside volunteer, talk coach for the PsychedelX talk competition, and community organizer for the Psychedelic Medicine Association. Antsy to help birth a kinder world, Maya hops around various projects in computer vision aided mental health diagnostics, machine learning, data science, network neuroscience, socio-economic inequity, gender minority stress, and psychedelic therapy. She helped design a clinical trial investigating MDMA-assisted group therapy for PTSD and gender minority stress in trans and gender expansive veterans. Her contributions investigate how MDMA and trauma healing impact embodiment and body uneasiness in trans and gender expansive people. She is investigating how naturalistic psilocybin use impacts cognition in people with dementia, building off a comparative exploration of how dementia and psilocybin impact brain networks.

🌟 Event Schedule

1:00 PM | Doors Open & Welcome

1:15 PM | Featured Speaker: Maya

1:45 PM | Q&A with Maya

2:00 PM | Community Connection + Art Making

3:00 PM | Until Next Time

PsyT Disclaimer: Version May2025

PsyT does not hold ceremonies or promote illegal activities. We provide a platform to discuss experiences that offer transformation in our personal and professional lives. This is not a space to seek, share, or procure controlled substances. Please do not contact us for such purposes or promote substances or retreats during events. Do not share images of prohibited substances, even for identification, to help keep our space safe for all. Discussions are for educational purposes only and not a substitute for medical advice. You acknowledge that any information we provide is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.