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BLKOUT is the Black Queer Men's Liberation Collective. We host gatherings, build space for dialogue, and create community-owned technology for the health, wealth and happiness of Black gay, bi and trans men across the UK. Through local chapters, cooperative membership, creative events, shared learning, and digital media, we turn connection into individual well-being and collective power — owned by and accountable to the people we serve.
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From 24 September
Runs to 31 Oct
One draw, 31 October
AIvor's Icons Quiz
Four questions. One word. A BLKOUT Icons tee.
Ask AIvor about the four BLKOUT Icons — Ivor Cummings, Berto Pasuka, Pearl Alcock, Justin Fashanu. Every right answer gives you a letter; unscramble the word to enter the end-of-month draw.
Community Newsletter
updates from Herald — our community communications agent
August 2026 — Worn close to the heart
Brother to Brother, redesigned. Free UK delivery until Sunday midnight. Plus: the picnic — with prizes you can't buy.
BLKOUT July 2026 — The picnic is called
Bring people. Bring food. Bring yourselves. Plus: room on the board, and Paris in September.
BLKOUT June 2026 — A compass for Pride month
BLKOUT May 2026 — This newsletter is about news
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BLKOUT HUB
our digital community home
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This Week in News
top stories voted up by the community
BLKOUT on YouTube
Critical Frequency
Data invisibility is a political problem, not a comms challenge. Content note: discusses suicide and systemic failure.
Featured Events
upcoming community gatherings
Queer Heritage South
History Club: Exploring the History of Schools OUT with Sue Sanders
BLKOUT
Haringey: Your borough's front door — come and make it truer
Straight talk: this calendar isn't yet the reliable, complete picture we want to give you — our regular events rhythm arrives from September. Until then we share what we find and verify, and promise only what we can keep — like the Annual Picnic, Sunday 16 August.
Browse the calendar so farFind your borough
12 doors openOne community, many doors. Each borough door carries what's here, what's beside us, what's worth the journey — and the history that borough made. The dark boroughs are the ones still to open.
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From the Archive
stories and history from our community
EVENT: A Place for Us? Black, Queer, Where?
What is it that we pass along to them or do they, too, need to start from scratch? Joseph Beam, Making Ourselves From Scratch, Brother To Brother Sexile is the latest descriptor I have seen for the phenomenon. The enduring attraction of the city to the ready-to-cross-boundaries queer person. There are versions of this story […]
BLKOUT Voices
community blog and perspectives
Our Black Gay Diaspora: A UK Playlist
Since 2021, Erick Taylor Woodby has recorded more than two dozen conversations with Black queer Britons for Our Black Gay Diaspora. He has now gathered them into one list — the fullest record yet of who has sat in that chair. Here it is, whole, so you can start wherever you like.
What Do We Own Together?
In September 2023, before the wind-up and the rebuild, Rob Berkeley sat down for a podcast interview and said the quiet part out loud: he started BLKOUT to save his own life. Revisiting that conversation ahead of this November's AGM and a membership that finally opens, the question underneath it — what do we own together? — is the one this Society exists to answer.
Making Space for Us: a decade of BLKOUT on Twitter
BLKOUT has left X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Before we went, we took everything — 40,641 tweets, twelve years, a whole ecosystem of Black queer voice. This is what the archive tells us, and why the taking matters.
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Community conversations, event recordings, and campaign videos.
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Professional insights, partnerships, and campaign updates.
Twitter/X
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Real-time updates, community news, and conversations.
The Playground
games and playthings from the BLKOUT workshop
Serious about liberation — not po-faced about it. Take five minutes to play.
OOMF Interactive
Put yourself in the story — become the hero of your own graphic novel.
Star mapWhat's in your sky?
Tap your people into a night sky and meet your constellation.
For gatheringsConstellations
The paper-and-pen version — a mapping exercise for real rooms, kit included.
JourneyIvor's Compass
Navigate Black queer heritage in the company of Ivor Cummings.
The Playground grows — new games are made with the community, never on it.
Learning & Self-Improvement
Coming SoonWe're building a learning space rooted in liberation values — courses, skill exchanges, and mentorship powered by BLKOUTHUB community.
available exclusively to BLKOUT members. help us shape it.
What would you most like to learn?