Reclaiming the Mosaic: Dr. Tyler TerMeer on the weight of intersectional leadership
As we head toward life under another Trump administration, one queer Black leader offers words of wisdom, reflection, and hope.
January 15, 2025
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Mondaire Jones, One of 1st Black Gay Congressmen, Is Freshman Leader
Jones, one of two Black gay men elected to Congress this month, will be the freshman class's representative to House leadership.
November 19, 2020
Bayard Rustin's Life and Civil Rights Legacy in Photos
Check out photographs of the black gay civil rights leader throughout his lifetime.
January 19, 2015
Bayard Rustin's Life and Civil Rights Legacy in Photos
Look back at the lifetime of accomplishments of the Black gay civil rights leader.
January 21, 2019
Black Episcopalians: Minority concerns lost in furor over gay issues
The national Episcopal leadership is focusing on the issue of gay ordination at the cost of addressing minority concerns and is enlisting African bishops to fight a battle that's not theirs, speakers told a gathering of black Episcopalians on Tuesday in Richmond, Va.
August 2, 2006
Op-ed: How to Stop the HIV Crisis Among Gay Black Men?
On National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, let us help work to save the communities that are most at risk for the virus.
February 7, 2015
Op-ed: Marching on Washington and the Issues We All Face
Whether our cause is ending racial discrimination or boosting LGBT rights, we're all in this struggle together.
August 28, 2013
Root 100 Recognizes African-American LGBT Luminaries
Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, Rashad Robinson, and Charles Blow grace this year's list.
September 11, 2014
Atlanta the new mecca for black gays
The Atlanta region now is home to the biggest concentration of black same-sex couples in the South, with nearly as many as the Chicago area, which has more than four times as many blacks.
August 15, 2005
Pride and Prejudice
In the wake of California's passage of Proposition 8, protests are popping up around the country -- and so are comparisons between gays' and African-Americans' fights for equality. Is gay the new black? Michael Joseph Gross examines two struggles for civil rights.
November 19, 2008
Gay is the New Black?
In the wake of California's passage of Proposition 8, protests are popping up around the country -- and so are comparisons between gays' and African-Americans' fights for equality. Is gay the new black? Michael Joseph Gross examines two struggles for civil rights. Plus: Photos from Wednesday night's rally in New York City.
November 16, 2008
An Unpopular Opinion: Blacks, Gays, and Prop. 8
The injection of race into the analysis of Proposition 8's passage is extremely disappointing. A battle for equal rights has now turned into an issue of whites versus blacks. But while some black gays think marriage shouldn't be a priority and that outreach to African-Americans should have been stronger, journalist Clay Cane says he has a vested interest in inequalities related to both race and sexual orientation ... and he doesn't need someone to hold his hand to believe that marriage equality is important.
November 20, 2008
'They're peddling death'
The promoter of the Raw Dukes sex party in Harlem in May banned safer sex, hoping to maximize his profits. A loud protest shut him down, but the underground industry of largely condom-free parties aimed at men of color is still thriving in New York City. AIDS educators have barely begun to fight back, while health advocates fear the trend could spread across the country.
August 14, 2006
Golden Globe Nominees Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz & More on Their Acclaimed Projects
We spoke with Golden Globes nominees Rustin’s Colman Domingo, Dead Ringers’ Rachel Weisz, Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham, and others about queer identity and more. Here's what they had to say.
December 29, 2023
Dominican Catholics Organize 'Black Monday' Protest of Gay U.S. Ambassador
Religious leaders in the Spanish-speaking Carribbean nation called on the faithful to wear all black on Monday in protest of President Obama's nomination of openly gay James Brewster as U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
July 18, 2013
The Politics of Race
A black LGBT presidential forum in Los Angeles helps define a powerful voting bloc
February 22, 2008
Black LGBT Faith Leaders on Why Black Lives Matter
Many black LGBT church members joined in Black Lives Matter Sunday actions to show that 'Black LGBT bodies must matter too!'
December 17, 2014