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“When ‘I’ is replaced with ‘We’, even illness becomes wellness”

Malcolm X
  • EVENTS
    • We host a calendar of fun, collaborative events that make space for Black queer men to connect, build supportive friendship networks, and share experiences
  • BLKOUTHUB app
    • We pool our resources and energy to create 24/7 peer support community via the BLKOUTHUB app, our own bespoke digital space designed by and for its members
  • NETWORKS
    • We nurture networks of mutual aid, shared learning, and enable new adventures
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CREATEs

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.“

James Baldwin
  • THE BLKOUT REVIEW & BLOG
    • We host platforms for our ideas and insights; generating and sharing digital content by us and for us
  • CULTURAL MEETUPS
    • We organise theatre, gallery and cinema trips, to take inspiration from arts and culture
  • PRODUCTION
    • We co-produce performances, publications and creative events with Black queer lives at their centre that help us to imagine and realise fiercer, fairer futures
Express yourself

CAREs

“Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless… You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.”

Audre Lorde
  • HEALING & COMMUNITY HEALTH
    • We take a trauma-informed approach to health, creating opportunities for collective healing and peer support
  • CAMPAIGNS
    • We help to build habits of solidarity among Black queer men and our communities, by sharing information and mobilising supportive action across generation, identity, and region.
  • LEADERSHIP
    • Together, our members govern, lead, and deliver our mission in response to our concerns, hopes, and ambitions
Grow stronger, together

  • ENTER: TRY THE BLACK EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE THIS AUGUST

    The Black Experience is a unique summer camping experience for and by Black bi, gay and/or trans men over 25. Recognising it’s been a tough year for many they’re offering opportunities to join the fun, apply for support or enter a competition to win a 50% newbie discount

  • EVENT: BLKOUTSIDE – SUMMER PICNIC 31 JULY

    Revealed . . . the best dressed theme for our summer picnic. Get into it! Come and do it in the park with us on 31st July

  • Long Read: Counted As Warriors?

    50 Years of Gay Pride matched by 50 years of failure among movements for racial justice in the UK to see that none of us are free until we are all free

  • CELEBRATE: ARISE SIR ISAAC

    Congratulations, Sir Isaac Julien! Well deserved recognition of your contribution to film and visual arts, thank you for the ongoing inspiration

  • UPDATE: SHOP BLKOUT RENEWED

    This Pride Month, say it with your chest! Check out the new SHOP BLKOUT and celebrate Black British Queer lives while raising funds to support BLKOUTUK’s mission #makingspaceforus

  • EVENT: HARD PRESSED PANEL @ BRUNCH: POWER EDITION

    In small ways and large, we can do different than society tells us – especially when society fails us with a depressing regularity. Applying a radical imagination to our situation means being willing to change what may appear to be insignificant in practice; rejecting them because they reinforce systems that we intend to dismantle

  • LISTEN: LOVE MANY WAYS/HARD PRESSED

    At Black Men Who Brunch in April, we celebrated the arrival of Spring by adopting the theme of ‘Love’ as inspiration for our discussions and activities. Listen in to the powerful discussion from the #HardPressed panellists, and check out the Love Many Ways playlist

  • EVENT: GET AWAY, TAKE UP SPACE & EXPRESS YOURSELF

    After what has been a(nother) challenging week for social justice in the UK, it is a pleasure to be able to share with you some exciting, good news. A get away Those of you who have been able to resist the lure of foreign travel today, if you are anything like me, will be largely…

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