Category: Pride Heroes
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PRIDE: Be Real Like Sylvester James Jr. (1947-1988)
Like Sylvester we appreciate the importance of music and dancing to our cultures and will continue to support and create black queer spaces where we have the freedom to ‘be real’.
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Pride: Write like Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Turning our inspiration into action #Pride2018 Langston Hughes ‘Poet Laureate of the Negro Race’
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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’
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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’