is a muny for olr gay men and the men who love them.
Contents:
- BLACK, GRAY AND GAY: THE PERILS OF AGG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR
- INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG
- I LIVED UNAPOLOGETILLY AS A BLACK GAY MAN THE 70S. NOW I’M AGG WH PRI & DIGNY.
- THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
BLACK, GRAY AND GAY: THE PERILS OF AGG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR
While battlg the vlence of Jim Crow laws and backlash om the civil rights movement, many of the folks were ncurrently alg wh homophobia and transphobia, durg a time when homosexualy and sodomy were agast the law and offered another reason for vlence.
INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG
Even out gay activist Bayard Rt, one of Mart Luther Kg Jr. In a 1970 speech, Huey Newton, Black Panthers founr, said, “The women’s liberatn ont and the gay liberatn ont are our iends, they are our potential alli, and we need as many alli as possible.
I LIVED UNAPOLOGETILLY AS A BLACK GAY MAN THE 70S. NOW I’M AGG WH PRI & DIGNY.
But all of this, bed wh ntemporary society’s ntued ageism, racism and homophobia n mean severe systemic jtice, visibily and a lack of rourc for Black LGBTQ senrs. Who self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) — about 1. Nursg hom and other long-term re facili are pecially problematic for black LGBTQ elrs, acrdg to Kenh Mchell, 62, a black gay man livg New Orleans.
“People need to be able to be their te selv; beg fearful and strsed impacts your qualy of life and your physil and mental health, " add Mchell, who serv as a board member for New Orleans Advot for GLBT Elrs (NOAGE) Burgs, 65, a black gay man Washgton D.
THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
“It’s not the same as beg a young gay person; there’s ls to do, and many of our peers have died om the AIDS epimic, ” he said.