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Tag: Representation

  • invite: (role) models to feature ‘in the picture’

    As important to us, is that we take this unique opportunity to see, and understand, each other. While government, and the public services that our taxes contribute to, have a responsibility to respond to our needs, we could be the heroes we’ve been waiting for.

  • Watch: What’s new? Our pick of Outfest 2017

    We’re keen to see more Black queer stories on screen. Rob went to Outfest Film Festival in LA to find out what’s on the horizon

  • Read: 30 years with HIV – celebrating life

    Read: 30 years with HIV – celebrating life

    On World AIDS Day BlackOutUK is compelled speak our truth. There’s guaranteed to be a wealth of statistics quoted throughout the day by professionals about Black Gay men. Over the last 40 years we have experienced the loss of dozens of friends, and lovers and a mother; among the earliest casualties of this global epidemic.…

  • WATCH: #Speechless Series No.4 ‘No where are you really from?’

    WATCH: #Speechless Series No.4 ‘No where are you really from?’

    The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley wishes that there was an easier answer to the ‘where are you from?’ question. “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations of…