Like Empire's Jamal and Kai, we're black, gay and worthy of love | Metro News

Contents:

• FIRST TWO OPENLY GAY BLACK MEN HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO CONGRS: 'THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME'
• TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
• FALLY YOU N WATCH TV AND SEE WE – AS BLACK GAY MEN – ARE WORTHY OF LOVE
• TOP 10 GAY BLACK ONLYFANS & HOTTT BBC GAY ONLYFANS 2023
• WATCH GAY BLACK FATHERS KORDALE AND KALEB STAR IN THIS BETIFUL NIKON AD
• HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

FIRST TWO OPENLY GAY BLACK MEN HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO CONGRS: 'THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME'

Democrats Rchie Torr and Mondaire Jon earned themselv a place the history books as the first openly gay Black men elected to Congrs on Tuday night. In that primary, he bted fellow Cy Councilmember Ruben Diaz Sr., who has a history of homophobic ments, acrdg to the New York Daily News. Of possibly beg among the first gay Black men to jo Congrs, Jon told CBS News June that was “a lot of rponsibily.

The first gay person of lor, Rep. Black gay love is revolutnary.

When two Black men love each other on screen, shows others what is possible, and shows that you n be who you are and still fd we want to take a look back at some of the Black gay upl that we've seen on TV who have spired viewers and changed media as we know . Unfortunately, the upl aren't as numero as they should be, but as more Black queer creativ get chanc to tell stori, we n only image what the future of Black gay reprentatn looks like.

TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.

Rchie TorrDave Sanrs for The New York TimMondaire JonDiree Rs for The New York Timsli 1sli 2Rchie Torr and Mondaire Jon, two young progrsive ndidat om New York, beme the first two openly gay Black men elected to Congrs after they were clared wners their Hoe men will replace retirg lawmakers their district. Torr also beme the first gay Ao-Lato person elected to Congrs on Tuday night. Two of the mentors have a romantic history, and one of them unwtgly gets assigned to a boy who is gay, prentg somethg of a plex dynamic as the ruals ntue at a remote mp.

Paris Is Burng highlights the importance of chosen fai, as well as creativy and muny borne amid stggl wh poverty, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and accs to health re.

FALLY YOU N WATCH TV AND SEE WE – AS BLACK GAY MEN – ARE WORTHY OF LOVE

Two Mlim, gay, and closeted teenagers New York's Bed-Stuy neighborhood have a secret love affair that gets swept up amidst the surveillance of mosqu. This 2014 film follows a gay high schooler raised Hattiburg, Mississippi, as he rencil his sexualy and Christian fah, as well as a plex fay dynamic. Jason Holliday is the tle subject of this 1967 documentary where the Black and gay baret performer, htler, and sex worker shar var tal om his life, eded down om a 12-hour terview.

Throughout the film, Holliday sounds off on beg a Black, gay man durg the Civil Rights era, all while sually enjoyg drks, weed, and cigarett on mera.

In what would be Black gay documentarian Marlon Riggs' fal film, Black Is, Black A't illtrat how there's no sgular, monolhic way for people to be Black wh a muny that's diverse s own right. After his parents kick him out for beg gay, a young Black pater enters a homels shelter, where he meets an olr Black gay poet.

TOP 10 GAY BLACK ONLYFANS & HOTTT BBC GAY ONLYFANS 2023

After his boyiend di, a Black gay drag queen (Vg Rham) be iends wh a sgle mother and her dgther. PUNKS, a 2000 film ma by Noah's Arc creator Patrik-Ian Polk, follows four Black gay men who are all close iends searchg for a fulfillg romantic relatnship.

The edic take (which is que difficult at actually viewg as there were distributn issu) explor what means to be Black and gay while also sheddg light on the everyday stggl shared as part of the human experience. Together, they build a relatnship that mt rema secret bee homosexualy is illegal. The Skny picts five llege iends, cludg four gay men and a lbian woman, who get together for Pri New York Cy.

WATCH GAY BLACK FATHERS KORDALE AND KALEB STAR IN THIS BETIFUL NIKON AD

Nigga, that's gay! A lot of the boys I went to school wh rejected anythg they nsired feme or homosexual or outsi of what means to be a black man their imagatn.

It didn't feel like a story of the black gay men that I know. While the events may seem unrelated, activists and lears at the tersectn of the muni say has bee all the more evint that the fight for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights nnot be divorced om the stggle for racial gay rights movement and the Black civil rights movement have long been tertwed, as evinced by the overlap of key figur — cludg Jam Baldw, Pli Murray and Bayard Rt — and the fact that Black activists, among them the transgenr woman Marsha P.

"'B-Boy Blu' (1994-2005)by Jam Earl HardyAlyson Books"B-Boy Blu" is a six-book seri that follows a group of Black gay men livg New York Cy. "I didn't fully unrstand my queerns until I read this book, which reflected, at the time the early 2000s, the plexi of beg Black and gay.

HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

He said is a "journey through the life of a Black gay man that experienc love, joy, pa and loss. For the first time on a televisn work we – and the world – wnsed the marriage of two Black gay men. It was movg to see the love of two gay Black men celebrated on natnal televisn at a time where most mastream media still largely picts same-sex upl as whe or terracial.

On the surface, a gay bachelor party that clus a drag performance, or a Black weddg where the newlyweds jump the broom might not seem novel. But when those thgs occur together rerc a ccial sentiment – black culture and gay culture n exist. Our inti are often picted as beg separate, sometim petg, which prevents non queer black people om acknowledgg the plexi we face as Black gay men.