Lavender Magazine Community Pride Award – Ryan Weyandt

In any transactional business, we always want to do business with people we feel comfortable with; people who have common traits and lives like ourselves.

The establishment of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance is one way where home sellers and buyers can connect with people from their own community towards facilitating one of the biggest transactions one can make in their lifetime.

As Chief Executive Officer of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, Ryan Weyandt has 4,000 real estate professionals that are a part of this organization. His work began locally, yet it has taken him beyond his home base, as he is now working on an international scale.

Under Weyandt, the Alliance has been on the forefront in changing our notion of home ownership as an LGBTQ+ community. That includes being comfortable in where they live, how to be financially literate, and making the home transaction process a positive one for our community.

Weyandt also understands the challenges his organization faces in this field. That includes turning discrimination into a positive home transaction experience, even in the face of new legal challenges against our community. He has put himself out front in helping the Alliance overcome those challenges for both consumers and real estate professionals.

Weyandt’s said he was “flattered” and “humbled” to be named for this award. “It’s a surreal honor because so many of my friends and the people that I’ve looked up to get me here have had that same honor, have had the spread, have had the cover, have received awards from Lavender,” Weyandt reflected. “It’s just surreal, and I don’t know that the gravity will really sink in until I see it.”

For taking the lead in bringing LGBTQ+ real estate professionals together, Lavender Magazine congratulates Ryan Weyandt for his Community Pride Award this year.