Lookg for a list of the bt gay sgers and gay micians of all time? We've round up our top picks along wh their bt songs!
Contents:
- ON THE GREATT GENERATN: THE BLACK GAY '80S
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
ON THE GREATT GENERATN: THE BLACK GAY '80S
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I don't n to black gay men as much that talk about the books, and films, and art that saved their liv.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
But that history, that spectacular history, embedd those books, rried the burn almost sgularly of tryg to save a generatn of black gay and bisexual men.
But the story of black gay and bisexual men's activism that same perd, the height of the Reagan/Thatcher era, those tremendo and breathtakg revolutnary acts also need to be told and told aga, bee giv a fuller picture of the many kds and forms and maniftatn of AIDS activism that perd. And the startg pot for that remembrance is the activism that sprang up the 1980s among that generatn of black gay and bisexual men. Of that era, that , of anizatns formg, books beg published, nferenc anized, events ordated, that we sometim refer to as the black gay renaissance, those men, who also dispted funerals, when their brothers' liv were beg "-queered" and sanized for heterosexist fai (see wrer and activist Assoto Sat for more rmatn), and nferenc where their prence was margalized (see wrer and activist Craig Harris for more rmatn), offer important strategi for rilience and ristance, agast the Empire, the face of spair.
There are mols of rilience for black gay and bisexual men, and mols of spair, that we mt exvate om the s. Black gay men face many dangers, but to try to do this work, particularly any kd of HIV/AIDS advocy work, and not know Marlon, and Essex, and Joseph, and the many others, I thk is dangero.
35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
And we bang our head agast the wall about what to do to save black gay men. But we should be askg ourselv, for that generatn of black gay men, those who died and those who walk this earth today, 's important to note that not all of our bravt died, what wisdom n we extract om them?
This is particularly ccial sce our current moment, which is dire many s for young black gay men, we need to better unrstand how the 1980s that generatn of black gay men, survived their plague, or didn't; and how they ped, how they failed themselv and each other, and how they triumphed. RelatedHIVblack-gay-men-hivhiv-activism HIV preventnHIV/AIDS.
GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
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People like Marv Gaye, Whney Hoton, and Ana Baker were churng out hs and sellg lns of rerds.
”Last but not least, we have Marv Gaye.