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Pride: Think like Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Before she died, Audre Lorde in an African naming ceremony took the name Gambda Adisa, meaning ‘Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Known’

4 July 2018
Pride: Fight like Marsha P Johnson (1945-1992)

Marsha’s activism highlights for us the ‘heavy-lifting’ in our movement by those who are ‘never straight’

3 July 2018
Pride:Dream Like Beam Joseph Beam(1954-1988)

‘Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act’. Celebrating our heroes Joseph Beam #Pride2018

2 July 2018
Pride: Speak like Baldwin (1924-1987)

Celebrating our inspiration #Pride2018 – novelist, visionary, social commentator James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) inspires us to speak #BlackOutAndProud

1 July 2018
Pride: Create Like Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)

Celebrating our inspiration #Pride2018 – photographer, artist and visionary Rotimi Fani-Kayode inspires us to create

29 June 2018
Read: Say it Loud, BlackOut and Proud

Every day in the run up to Pride we’ll be celebrating those who’s example inspires us to act #BlackOutAndProud Read More

29 June 2018
Read: BlackOut Inheritance – part three

We got to wondering what knowledge, wisdom, or artefacts we have inherited from other black gay men and what we would like to pass on. Here, Marc and Ashley share their inheritance/legacy

31 March 2018
Long Read: “Who are these Grace Jones looking chicks?” Black Panther: a review

Iggy Pop, remarking on his early Michigan days in The Stooges circa 1967, suggested American bands could not get arrested at home until the so-called British invasion happened. As Iggy put it, The endorsement of indigenous African American music(s) – the Blues, Southern Soul – by the “parent culture,” in the guise of The Beatles…

9 March 2018