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10 Black gay YouTubers & LGBTQ vloggers who are bringing queer color to the small screen
Black gay YouTubers aren’t always easy to find, but we’ve located 10 Black LGBTQ vloggers whose work is fun, fierce, and eye-opening.
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The Harlem Renaissance was as Queer as it was Black
Beginning a century ago, Black LGBTQ entertainers & writers expressed their identities freely. We have them to thank for much of our present society.
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The revolutionaries behind the Black LGBTQ hip-hop movement
The legacy of Black gay hip-hop artists subverts old notions of hip-hop as much as affirms what hip-hop is: an outlet for disenfranchised Black youth to express our realities through art.
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I was stopped-and-frisked 4 times during the Bloomberg administration
Mike Bloomberg’s racist and anti-LGBTQ policies as New York’s mayor disqualify him as a Democratic contender.
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Tré Melvin is still the King of Black YouTube
Tré Melvin seems to be working into the next generation of quality Black art and entertainment.
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BET is celebrating Black LGBTQ people with #29DaysofQueerExcellence
In addition to sharing different Black LGBTQ people each day in February, BET will also feature cast members of ‘Pose’ in a docuseries and honor Jaboukie Young-White.
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Black history is now. I’m part of it & so are you.
Remember this Black History Month that being Black and LGBTQ is still groundbreaking in several places – even in our nation’s Capitol.
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Gay Civil Rights icon Bayard Rustin just got his sodomy conviction pardoned
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California pardoned Rustin, who was arrested in 1953 for having sex with men.
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Marsha P. Johnson is getting a state park in Brooklyn named after her
To kick off Black History Month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he will rename a state park in honor of the activist and icon.
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This gender non-conforming blues singer was a Harlem Renaissance super star
She was famous for her bawdy performances and a chorus line of eight effeminate male dancers.