Palms Sprgs is known for beg a haven for LGBTQ people, but hasn’t been as welg to Black gay men. Brothers of the Dert is helpg fix that.
Contents:
- LIVG ‘BT GAY BLACK LIFE’ IS KEY FOR THIS PALM SPRGS GROUP
- WHO LOVED GAY BLACK BOYS BEFORE MOONLIGHT?
- INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
LIVG ‘BT GAY BLACK LIFE’ IS KEY FOR THIS PALM SPRGS GROUP
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Some ll Palm Sprgs the “gayt town Ameri, ” but many LGBTQ rints of lor say there is still a long way to go to uplift diverse muni and remedy the cy’s racist past. A growg group lled Brothers of the Dert is workg to addrs that issue by empowerg Black gay men Palm Sprgs and beyond the cy’s borrs the Coachella Valley. “People felt isolated, people felt disnnected, and people did not feel really a part of the larger muny as Black gay men the Coachella Valley, ” says Tim Vcent, print and -founr of Brothers of the Dert.
Both Vcent and Taylor moved to Palm Sprgs om plac wh larger Black gay muni — Oakland and Los Angel. Palm Sprgs has been known as a gay mec for s, even electg the natn’s first all LGBTQ Cy Council 2017 and votg the first openly transgenr mayor California history.
WHO LOVED GAY BLACK BOYS BEFORE MOONLIGHT?
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Vcent says when he and other Black gay men would meet up, they realized suportg one another on an dividual level wouldn’t be enough. The founrs formed the group 2017, hostg events and programs that follow their missn of empowerg Black gay men and their alli, eventually beg a 501 (c) (3) nonprof anizatn 2020.
INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
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The now annual occurance set out to addrs what many the Brothers of the Dert group felt was reprentative of livg their bt Black gay life, cludg sexual and timate relatnships, nutrn, fance and more. What surprised Vcent after creatg the group was that the begng, some members of the larger LGBTQ muny didn’t unrstand why there was a need to have an anizatn that is exclively n by Black gay men. Homosexualy, relign, Ain-Amerin culture and small-town mentali tersect this story of a high school stunt who ni his attractn to men.
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