Dari Bost is Associate Profsor of Ethnic Studi at the Universy of Utah and was a 2020 Eccl Centre Visg Fellow at the Brish Library. In my book, Evince of Beg: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Polics of Vlence (Chigo, 2019), I wrote about the renaissance of black...
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Classmate Profile for Rotimi Gay, Jul E. Mastbm Alumni Associatn (JEMAA) Class 1931 to Prent * rotimi gay *
Durg his life, gay Nigerian photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayo stggled to fd acceptance. Gag promence the Uned Kgdom and Uned Stat the 1980s, Fani-Kayo tapped to the turbulence of the gay muny – which at the time was facg both the rise of HIV/AIDS and ostracism. Compatrt and gay rights activist Bisi Alimi is no doubt as to what Fani-Kayo left behd.
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