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Contents:

• PODST AIMS TO GO BEYOND ‘SURFACE LEVEL’ DISCSNS ABOUT BEG BLACK AND GAY AMERI
• FALLY YOU N WATCH TV AND SEE WE – AS BLACK GAY MEN – ARE WORTHY OF LOVE
• THE HIGH RISK OF GAY BLACK MEN GETTG HIV
• INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG
• BEG BLACK AND GAY: HOW TERSECTNAL STIGMA IMPACTS ON THE UPTAKE OF PREP
• A BLACK MAN RAN TO GAY ENCLAV TO FEEL SAFE. BUT WAS HE WELE?
• 10 GAYT BLACK CI AMERI
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

PODST AIMS TO GO BEYOND ‘SURFACE LEVEL’ DISCSNS ABOUT BEG BLACK AND GAY AMERI

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.

Popular culture tends to portray Black gay men as two extrem: the hypermascule bte or the sassy Universy alums Damon Epps, Tony Jerm and Jordan Randall hope to provi a broar and more nuanced take wh “Surface Level, ” a podst full of upliftg stori, some edy, and a lot of real talk centered on the realy of beg Black and gay ntemporary show, started at the height of the ronavis panmic, exam societal expectatns of Black gay men and attempts to shatter stereotyp through stori and terviews that amplify a range of voic and experienc.

“When to reprentatn the LGBTQ+ muny, pecially wh Black gay men, there aren’t a lot of reprentatns, ” said Jerm, a senr brand marketer for Nickeloon. ”Black gay men stggle more to fd acceptance, whether ’s revealg their te self to fay, iends on the block, llege buddi, or the workplace, bee “there’s a lot of ndng that happens wh fay dynamics and wh the larger muny, that this is how you’re supposed to show up the world, ” add Randall, who said ’s important that the tr e their platform to unter those notns. “Sexualy and genr aren’t the same, ” Randall said, “but we grow up thkg that we n’t possibly be accepted if we’re gay.

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

”Now s third season, “Surface Level” has had an eclectic mix of guts, cludg a pastor; a gay activist and scholar; and a Google diversy, equy and cln expert. “The ia of what some thk gay people are is maybe purely crazy sexual begs or people nng around Speedos wh rabows June, ” said Epps, a buyer for Calv Kle. [In] the begng of my reer, I would dial down my gayns or not really make a pot of nversatn bee I had a natural anxiety operatg around straight men” — an area the hosts terrogate their “The Magil Negro Is OOO” ’s a plex realy assiatg to the rporate world as a non-heterosexual.

THE HIGH RISK OF GAY BLACK MEN GETTG HIV

Franc Armas-Edwards, a Google cln expert who was a gut on the show’s “No Lbians Allowed” episo, agreed: “There’s a lot of cultural norms around power and genr that are subverted by gay men and their thentic selv.

INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG

“Society seems to move forward, but there’s still so much progrs left to be done, ” Jerm June day 1969, spurred by a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy — a typil sweep durg that time bee homosexualy was still illegal 49 stat except for Illois — the LGBTQ+ muny stood solidary and fought back. ”CJ Rhos, senr pastor at Mount Helm Baptist Church Jackson, Miss., said that the Black church has long accepted homosexualy but hasn’t always been affirmg. “Whether they’re homosexual or heterosexual, [Black men then] fd themselv alienated by var parts of the Black muny bee they’re never performg a certa kd of masculy that they may see some pulps and fely amongst certa rappers” — those elements that have long fluenced Black said broad discsn is need to create safe spac for Black men to verbally exprs “any number of emotnal reali, mental health, mental illns, trmatic experienc” that e wh that.

”The hosts say that’s the sort of muny they aim to foster through their ndid “We go there” nversatns on “Surface Level” — shapg the natnal dialogue on Black LGBTQ+ culture and mystifyg the Black gay man.

Black cultural practners explore the Black gay male physil and mental state through a variety of artistic cu and symbols at their disposal. François Féral Benga was a Senegale baret in of avant-gar Paris and the Harlem Renaissance who existed openly gay creative circl and is known to have had multiple lovers throughout his life.

BEG BLACK AND GAY: HOW TERSECTNAL STIGMA IMPACTS ON THE UPTAKE OF PREP

As an early example of homoerotic sexualy created by a Black queer male artist, the sculpture do not act as a vice for a fetish or hypersexualizatn.

A BLACK MAN RAN TO GAY ENCLAV TO FEEL SAFE. BUT WAS HE WELE?

In Greenwich Village, where he lived and worked, Delaney beme part of a gay bohemian circle of maly whe iends, but he was unfortable wh his sexualy.

Passg/Posg, Patgs & Fx Chapel is a portfol wh 17 lor offset lhographs that pict Ain Amerin gay men styled a Black heteronormative fashn set different baroque backgrounds.

10 GAYT BLACK CI AMERI

This panel illtratg a red door slightly ajar revealg a silver lg is the entrance to an enchanted place where young gay men dream of beg of age to enter. The Red Door is the entrance to the legendary gay club known as the ‘Marquette, ’ sometim referred to as the “Quy.

Scholar and bgrapher Arnold Rampersad not his bgraphy on Ellison that he acced homosexual officials of havg “hound” him out of llege. Also, found his Ellison’s papers, he wrote of Jam Baldw 1953, “He don’t know the difference between gettg relign and gog homo.

” Ellison’s view of homosexualy strengthens Ligon’s e of his text analyzg the feelg of visibily by Black queer men. A send work om Glenn Ligon, Untled (Barbershop), is a mentary on the role of the barbershop the Black muny—while a safe space to Black masculy, to Black queer men, is a space of ntempt, a homophobic stutn where they are not accepted and may be physilly harmed.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

The whe male cis-genred members of the LGBTQ+ see Ain Amerin gay men as aggrsive and domant symbols of hyper-heterosexualy that are at the mercy of their whims.

Harg and Mapplethorpe’s works othered the Ain Amerin Gay Male as a cultural artifact, and as a rult, rced to a vsel to be filled wh sexual fetish. They chose the mos of reprentatn that bt su them, whout the gaze of the heteropatriarchy and whe cis-genred 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.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

An art stunt, who is thrown out of his home bee he's gay, beiends a homels man who was a pivotal gay figure the Harlem Renaissance.

A film that tackl homophobia the Caribbean, follows two Bahamian men who fall love and the wife of a secretly gay pastor. Documentary about one of the first gay black diss the untry and s owner, Jewel Thais-Williams, who broke down racial and cultural barriers. In this mil, a young man is kicked out of his home when his mother disvers he is gay and fds a new fay amid Los Angel drag queens embedd ballroom culture.

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. 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.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Racism and homophobia may not be two sis of the same but for those of that are Black and LGBTQ+ they both play a role limg our opportuni for happs and succs. It is our hope that this episo will remd other gay Black men that they are worthy of all the love and happs that the world might try to ny them.

’ And if that is to be believed we owe to Black gay men to lift them up so that they n reach their full potential and outsi of their romantic relatnships. 50 Years of Gay Pri matched by 50 years of failure among movements for racial jtice the UK to see that none of are ee until we are all ee. This article tak a closer look at the CDC fdgs and outl the var factors ntributg to the exceptnally high risk of HIV gay and bisexual Black men the Uned Stat.

This not only clus creasg treatment accs for at-risk muni but also overg barriers to HIV ttg (cludg HIV stigma and homophobia). This n send gay and bisexual men to hidg for fear of disclosure of not only their HIV stat but their sexual orientatn as well.