Gay history is Black history.
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‘BOYS COME FIRST’: AARON FOLEY’S DEBUT NOVEL FOLLOWS THREE MILLENNIAL GAY BLACK FRIENDS DETRO
Author Aaron Foley talks wh "Amerin Black Journal" producer AJ Walker about his but "Boys Come First" novel about 3 gay black iends. * 3 gay black men *
What do look like on the si of a iendship between three lennial gay Black iends takg on their early 30s Detro? AJ Walker: He hop his own inty as beg black and gay n give a firsthand perspective that n provi valuable sight and an thentic experience for rears. Aaron Foley: I felt was really important to have three characters, as this book, who are fully formed, nfint, gay, black men who love who they are, serve to be loved out loud and reprent themselv to the fullt.
AJ Walker: Foley mak a pot to note that his book is not all about the trials and tribulatns of the black, gay, urban muny. There is joy that om beg gay and beg nfint and lovg yourself and lovg the people around you.
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.
Black gay love is revolutnary. * 3 gay black men *
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.
Black gay men have always ma history. The history of Ameri would not exist whout Black gay men.
They've served as civil rights lears, revolutnary artists, labor anizers, scientists, policians, and tors, and their impact has touched every part of this still, many Black gay men are fotten, and erased om history, wh their acplishments beg washed away. But Amerin history is Black history, and is Black gay history. So we've put together this list of jt some of the important Black gay men who have changed Ameri and the World.