Author: blkoutuk

  • Apply: The BlackOut Collective

    Join the first BlackOut Collective. Take a leading role in making a difference to the lives of Black Queer men in the UK

  • BlackOut: what’s the big idea?

    Black queer men creating the new; shared spaces for shared futures BlackOut disrupts stubborn patterns of social marginalisation, exclusion, and precarity by creating a beacon media brand, digital platform and collaboration hub that connects Black Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer men to each other and mobilises them in actions to support voice, authentic visibility, resilience, wealth, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, health/wellbeing…

  • Create: Design BlackOut’s Pride 2019 T-shirt and win!!

    Black queer men, get your thinking caps on, get drawing, and submit your t-shirt design to blkoutuk@gmail.com as a digital image (photo, scanned drawing, graphic) by noon Fri 31st May

  • Event: ties that bind

    Event: ties that bind

    IWD2019 reminded us of the amazing women in our communities and how rarely we make time to speak with each other. The result: Revolutionary Hope – The Ties that Bind – An evening of Black women & Black queer men in conversation (May 2019)

  • Rated: March 2019

    Each month, Rated lists our favourites: the must-sees, must-be-seen-ats, have-you-reads, ins and outs, and up and downs for your diaries March 2019 Something . . . Or go check out the semi-final games in the London Unity League Cup on the 10th. East End Phoenix take on league leaders, Soho FC, while in the other…

  • Watch: #Speechless No.6 – Patti, Luther and the end of ambiguity

    In the latest instalment of BlackOut’s Speechless series, Antoine Rogers reflects on the posthumous outing of Luther Vandross, the complexities of disclosure for Black men and the nature of allyship #Speechless

  • Read: Remembering Pasuka; celebrating us

    David McAlmont’s lecture was a fitting memorial to the legacy of Berto Pasuka, and at the same time a paean to the beauty, complexity and humanity of contemporary Black British queer men and their lives

  • Read: Excited, Nervous, yet Proud

    When BlackOut asked me to give the inaugural Berto Pasuka Lecture this Friday (15th Feb) I couldn’t say no!