Mikah needs your help to make the outdoors a more welcoming place for LGBTQ+ people--particularly during the current moment where anything labeled as "diverse" is under attack--by donating toward his next film.
*Laugh and cry your way through a nature-set overview of his work via his most recent, award-winning short film, Canyon Chorus--link to watch via YouTube. Or read below for more:
After setting a world record as the first person to visit all 400+ U.S. National Park Service sites in a single journey, Mikah's vocation became being the voice for LGBTQ+ people who have been severely underrepresented in outdoors and adventure cultures. This is exemplified by Mikah becoming the "First Openly Gay Man Featured in an Outdoors Recreation Ad" (with REI). Which didn't happen until 2018, even as Mormon-owned Marriott started doing LGBTQ+ marketing in the early 2000s. Meaning even the Mormons are more progressive than the outdoor industry!
Mikah is currently focused on expanding LGBTQ+ acceptance in outdoors culture through a feature-length documentary about that parks journey, but he needs your help to raise $250,000 to complete this film, to use people's love of national parks to reach them with a message of empathy for those who are different.
Canyon Chorus is proof of that concept, and confirmed the effectiveness of expanding LGBTQ+ acceptance by taking a gay story to an audience loving pow, gnar, and other typical outdoor films. When Canyon Chorus made the 2025 Banff World Tour, naming it as one of the best outdoor films of the year, it placed a gay story in the middle of films seen on a tour by 500,000 outdoors fans who don't engage with LGBTQ+ people regularly, as Mikah learned by touring with the film to places like Huntington, WV, Billings, MT, and Salt Lake City, UT.
You can watch that short film for free at mikahmeyer.com/documentary, where you'll see more about how Mikah transformed his original 2016 - 2019 "World Record National Parks Journey" into projects that help people feel safe and welcome to be themselves, like the Outside Safe Space symbol he designed and is being worn across America via 105,000+ pins, stickers, and patches, so LGBTQ+ people can identify allies in outdoor, rural, and active spaces.
To continue this work, and meet the moment as America turns 250 in 2026 and deserves diverse stories as part of that anniversary, Mikah now needs your donations to reach new audiences and build empathy for LGBTQ+ people via the medium of film.
