Author: blkoutuk

  • Read: Black Trans Men are men

    BlackOut UK celebrates Black queer men in all our diversity. This Trans Awareness Week we want to express solidarity with our brothers of trans experience, and remind you that this platform is for all of us – put simply #TransMenAreMen

  • Review: Bitter to what end?

    Ababri creates work that echoes with a multitude of artistic references but maintains an originality that is bracing, challenging and raw in its exploration of the sexualised, male and homosexual, Black body.

  • Event: The Wiz @ 40 – The Category is . . .

    40 years on, this Sidney (Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon) Lumet directed, Quincy Jones produced soundtrack, with songs written by Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, and cast including Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, and Lena Horne The WIZ is what we need right now.

  • It’s time to B

    Sunday’s performance of B, as part of the And What Queer Arts Festival, moved some of the capacity audience at Rich Mix to tears

  • Watch This Space: Aaron Lambert

    I was doing what I wasn’t supposed to be doing for a long time and had to pay the price for that. I didn’t want to pay it no more. So I made a new choice.

  • Read: Mediocrity for all

    #BlackHistoryMonth promotes #BlackExcellence but are these expectations realistic? Don’t we also have the right to #BlackMediocrity ? Doesn’t #BlackMentalHealth require it?

  • Create: The Wiz@40 Party : Open Call for Cast & Crew

    The Wiz is 40 this year! It feels like the film we need right now! Queering The Wiz feels like the perfect response to our times and with your help we hope to make it the perfect opportunity to celebrate each other. Join us

  • Read: First they came for the guys in heels

    It is horrifying how casual members of a community can be at the mistreatment of one of their own, as horrifying as that moment when you first come out and discover that gay men are far, far from enlightened