Blacklight

Birthright: To Dance The relationships among Black Gay men come closest to approximating those of African men. In fact, if one focuses only on the non-sexual aspects, Gay men could very well be the vanguard in the march of American men toward a greater understanding, appreciation and love of each other.—By g.r. adams .

Baldwin Comes Out Speaking with candor and openness about his own homosexuality, author James Baldwin claimed that his life-long sexual orientation had never been a secret, but he had not always felt it was necessary, “or anybody's business” to openly affirm it.—By James S. Tinney

André Ramseur
“Ready for you”
C.S. Prince
“Untitled Love Poem”
Adrian Stanford
“Yeah baby”
Essex Hemphill
“Homocide”

Harlem, the early years In an incredible display of business acumen, astute and aggressive Black businessmen managed to snatch Harlem's newly developed real estate from the hands of White middle-class. Jazz and the Blues also sprang from the Black experience and dazzled the high-lifers in Harlem.

Albertal Hunter, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington and others molded Black music into a powerful artistic weapon which shattered the mediocrity of American folk music and by 1920 Harlem had become the biggest, most elegant Black community the world had ever seen and home of the "New Negro"—By Garth Tate.

A Nergro for the '80's Ben Vereen, his face blacker than usual, lips painted thick and "plantation white," let everyone know just what he thought Black America's role in the 1980's should be. Under the pretext of paying homage to Bert Williams, Mr. Vereen "shucked and jived" until surely Martin Luther King, Jr. was spinning in his grave.—By Adrian Stanford

Bisexuality, the true norm? A newborn baby does not distinguish between a male or female stimulus; it will simply respond if the stimulus is a pleasurable one. If that newborn was never taught to distinguish between the two, as it most certainly will be, would he or she remain open throughout its life, only judging the quality of the stimulus but not the provider of the stimulus? What part would nature play?—By David Richardson

Interracial Intentions
Sometimes, when Gay people have problems with why most of the men I date are Black, I ask them: "Do you have any difficulty understanding why I'm more attracted to men than women?" When they say "No," I ask: "Then why do you have difficulty understanding my preference for Black men?" You would be surprised at how defensive some Gays get when the subject turns from sexual orientation to racial orientation. Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised—By Chasen Gaver

The Evans-Tibbs Collection of African American Art

The First National Gay March on Washington

The 1983 March on Washington

Black Cuba

Sisters Celebrate 30

Proposition 8 Protest

2008 Trans March

2008 SF Dyke March

2008 Soul of Pride

36 Hours in San Francisco
The book launch: Smash the Church. Smash the State For a couple of hours it felt like 1969 instead of 2009 as a group of Lesbian and Gay men of the left came together.
Slides: The 2009 SF Trans March
Slides: The 2009 Dyke March

Thirty-years ago a Black Gay political movement took root—then blossomed.

Homophobia among Blacks
Debbie, an attractive college coed, makes no bones about it. She dislikes homosexuals and wants nothing to do with them. "If I found out that one of my friends was one I would stop speaking to them," she said. Debbie is a victim of homophobia.—By Thomas Romney

Prisoner in Paradise:
An interview with Assata Shakur
In 1977 Assata Shakur, the former JoAnne Chesimard, was convicted of being the accomplice to the murder of a White New Jersey state trooper.

Two years after her conviction, Assata masterminded one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S. history and escaped to Cuba.

Although she has been in exile for nearly two decades, she continues to fight by speaking out against inequality and oppression.—By Evelyn C. White

Doing it on the DL by Quentin Johnson
“AIDS is a hot topic right now in Black communities primarily because the face of AIDS has changed. Gone are the angry, scared, screaming faces of White Gay activists charged with White privilege. The face HIV/AIDS wears now looks like my own. and behaves like my own...”

Holy Hate by Aniissa Heile,
The seven countries in the world that carry the death penalty for persons presumed guilty of homosexual acts, justify this punishment with the shari'a or standard interpretation of Muslim jurisprudence. Though not always applied, the existence of the death penalty makes sexual minorities extremely vulnerable.

Straightrippin by deep-dickollective
lifting masks off the faces/since way back in the days when hip hop was about poplocking, samples and storytellin' my belly is swelling no respect for resurrecting introductory lessons verses as discriminatory as standardized test-es-es but never the best-es-es predilections against Billboard charting ego boosts for loot