Category: Our Stories
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Create: Insert your story here
Do you live, work or play in the London Borough of Hackney? Join the conversation
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Read: The beginning of the end
What really happened with Alex?When will Troy face up to the past? What about the security guard? The latest in Troy’s Tale
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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…
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Long read: Four Wo(ke)men
Inspired by Nina Simone’s Four Women, I contemplate what it might mean to be a ‘woke’ or ‘woke enough’ black gay man.
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Read: A true love letter
Reflections on love for Valentine’s Season
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Listen: Future Perfect
Listen in as Rob and Phyll dig in the future archives to talk about life for Black LGBTQ people in 2018 Britain and call for LGBTQ presence in the 100 Great Black Britons poll
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Event: For Mums who lunch
We’d like to invite black gay/bi/sgl/queer men of all ages and their mothers to lunch to meet, discuss their relationships, and share experiences. We will be filming the lunch as well as conducting interviews with each mother and son separately. All in time for a short video just in time for Mother’s Day, to celebrate…
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Read: Laughing at respectability
We are also entrepreneurs. BlackOutUK invites Black queer business owners in the UK to tell us about their inspirations, work, aspirations, and what they have to offer. Here Pierre introduces www.ActStraight.com