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Twenty-eight years ago this month... |
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 As the nation, and much of the world, awaits to hear a Black man address the Democratic National Convention and accept the party's nomination for president, 28 years ago this month, another Black man, a Black Gay man, addressed that same convention, to withdraw his name from consideration as a vice-presidential candidate. He was the first openly Gay person to address that body and while it was a purely symbolic gesture. it was an an historic moment for both the Gay movement and the man: Melvin Boozer.
Would you ask me how I'd dare to compare the civil rights struggle with the struggle for lesbian and gay rights? I can compare, and I do compare them. I know what it means to be called a nigger. I know what it means to be called a faggot. And I can sum up the difference in one word: none.
Click here to read the speech
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The Politics of Gay Politics: White Agendas vs. Black Priorities
By Melvin Boozer
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When he delivered his speech to the convention, Melvin Boozer was the President of Gay Activists Alliance of DC, a predominantly White male organization with the political savvy - and clout - to get him on that stage. Melvin Boozer had a keen intellect (Degrees from Dartmouth and Yale) and understood power and the importance of clout. In this new edit of an article he wrote for Blacklight in 1983 he recounts how the White Gay political agenda evolved post-Stonewall, and how that evolution was sometimes at odds with Blacks.
Click here to read the article
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The Transgender March
Friday, June 27
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The Dyke March
Saturday, June 28
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The Soul of Pride
Sunday, June 29
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 On Aging with HIV by Sidney Brinkley
Dr. Capaldini articulated something I've been wrestling with, something she says many aging Gay men with HIV ask: Where do I fit in? That’s a social question and not one the medical establishment can answer or treat.
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 Holy Hatred by Anissa Helie
Why is sexuality and sexual conformity the focus of so much attention by fundamentalist forces? A possible answer is that people making individual choice appears as a challenge
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 Rethinking Sexual Roles by Eric Nicholson
I have always visualized having a sexually exclusive relationship, but my being versatile would be minimal or non-existent. Now I am learning that a mature emotional experience with someone has no conditions
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 Queer People of Color on Film by Karl Bruce Knapper
The vast majority of White Queer filmmakers either ignore the experiences of people of color altogether in their work, or get those experiences incredibly wrong
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 Straighttripin' by deep-dickollective
check yo champagne sippin cause you be perpetually straight trippin'
step off the bananna peel/your rhymes are fruity and ya slippin
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 Waiting to Exhale by Andrena
When I travel outside of Jamaica, it's the only time I am relaxed enough to remember that I have a pussy and that I like to connect it to others, in a literal, spiritual, intellectual and figurative sense.
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Copyright © 2008 by Blacklight
Blacklight was founded in 1979 in Washington, DC. Sidney Brinkley Founding Editor
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