#black queer history

[thottybrucewayne]

For as much as I love Paris Is Burning (1990) (It was foundational in my getting into ballroom history and learning more about the ballroom scene in my area when I was in my early 20s), I feel like we barely mention its spiritual sequel How Do I Look (2006) even though it gives a much better look into ballroom and how the popularity of Paris Is Burning affected the scene. It also touches on the issues participants of the og Paris Is Burning doc had with the handling of the og doc and the way the mainstream has been trying to exploit the ballroom scene since the second they found out about what it is. While Paris Is Buring is a deeply important part of our history, it should NOT be your first and last stop when learning about ballroom culture.

#thotty speaks #I'm not getting down in the mud with yall to argue over the importance of the og doc vs a webcomic but I do think its worth looking at thes #older pieces of queer media with a more critical gaze even if they mean a lot to us #black queer history

[365daysoflesbians]

Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.

Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.

In the early series Only Half the Picture, Muholi captures moments of love and intimacy as well as intense images alluding to traumatic events – despite the equality promised by South Africa’s 1996 constitution, its LGBTQIA+ community remains a target for violence and prejudice.

#zanele muholi #lesbian art #queer art #south african art #Black lesbian history #Black lgbtq history #Black queer history #Black queer art #Black art

[bodiesbodiesbodiesx3]

this is somewhat important but I want people to realise that when you talk about queer history, you can't just go 'black queer people gave us our rights' and leave it at that. You also have to acknowledge racism that came from our white peers during this time especially in lesbian history.

Acknowledging we helped built the community is great! Acknowledging the racism from that community during this era is even better!

#queer #racism cw #queer history #black queer history

[ourhistorytoo]

"What conservatives are very adept at, and very insightful about -- in ways that people at the center of America and on the left still don't quite get a handle on -- is how culture, not simply government and business and the law, is critical to control. Patterns of representation, ways of either including or excluding, silencing and erasing different communities and their stories, their narratives. Whether it's in the academy or on television or through the National Endowment for the Arts." - Marlon Riggs, 1992, Black Gay Filmmaker & Artist, interview in New York Times

#marlon riggs #black queer history #black history #lgbtq history

[gwydionmisha]

#LGBTQIA+ #Civil Rights #James Baldwin #Black History Month #Black Queer History #Queer History

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Fellow Travelers stars Noah J. Ricketts & Jelani Alladin "this miniseries is a revolution"

Ron Nyswaner’s exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction, Fellow Travelers, is a compelling and deeply moving epic miniseries that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in the lives of those directly affected through the following decades, taking in the post-Stonewall period of liberation in the 70s up to the devastation of the onset of HIV/AIDS in the…

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[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

*Apologies to Dorian Corey for having to paraphrase some of her immortal words.

#paris is burning #lgbt culture #queer culture #black queer history #black queer culture #ballroom culture #lgbtqia #lgbt pride #venus xtravaganza #Dorian Corey #junior labeija #Paris Dupree #quotes

[blackqueernotables]

Nadine Smith: founded Equality Florida, the state's leading LGBT education and advocacy organization in 1997. The first Black openly gay human to run for Tampa City Council in 1991. Co-chair of the 1993 March on Washington.

#nadine smith #black lesbian #lavandnoir #lgbt #black lgbt #lgbt women #black lgbt women #black queer notables #black queer women #queer women of color #queer women #black queer firsts #black lesbians #lgbt history #black queer history #queer history

[pretty-roach]

queer is a beautiful word with a rich history of resistance. queer was taken back specifically to combat violence from homophobes. queer is fuckin punk. it lets me embrace black queerness and reject rigid boxes imposed by patriarchy and white supremacy. queer is intersectional, unspecific, deeply personal. So it's okay to not use label. But don't try and erase it from our history. Don't try to rebuild the societal boxes we broke out of. we're here, we're fuckin queer, get used to it

#look im talking #like it's okay if it's a slur to YOU #but it rubs me the wrong way when yt tenderqueers insist on removing it from the acronym #ESPECIALLY when they ignore the specific ways black queerness is different #you can't erase the historical significance of it in LGBTQ history #like they always try to downplay it but reclaiming it was so important in the fight against aids #in our zines #in our protests #in our first organizations #and what you're just gonna ignore that? #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbtqa #lgbtq pride #lgbtq history #lgbt history #queer #black queer people #black queerness #black queer history #black queer magic #queer representation #queer history #queer artist #gay pride #black queer women #black queer love #black queer artist #lgbtq discourse #oops

[joylimimi]

Le Came Walk

Images from Trent Kelley’s “Hidden in the Open: Photographic Essay of Afro American Male Affections”.

The flickr page holds ~200 photographs from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Kelley writes on his page that: “Some of these images are sure to be gay and others may not. The end result is speculative at best for want in applying a label. Not every gesture articulated between men was an indication of male to male intimacies. Assuredly, what all photographs in this book have in common are signs of Afro American male affection and love that were recorded for posterity without fear and shame.”

First Image: Image the Gay Drag-Cakewalk Dance in 1900.

#trans rights #black trans lives matter #black transgender #black queer #black queer history #lgbtq people #lgbtqa #non binary #drag show #drag race #rupaulsdragcon #rupauls all stars

[thottybrucewayne]

While we're on the subject of Paris Is Burning...

Y'all should look into the Dorian Corey Project right here on Tumblr.

The Dorian Corey Project is a small online collective dedicated to preserving Black queer history. I found out about them a few years ago and I greatly appreciate the work they put in to honor Dorian Corey's history while so much of the dialogue surrounding her as a person tends to sensationalize her situation. They currently have a campaign running now until June called Gender In Real Life meant to "Highlight the efforts of (hyper) visible Trancestors and Ancestors whose life work inspires Black LGBTQIA people today." (The website will be up soon, too <3) Go over and show them some love and appreciation for the work they do!

#thotty speaks #black lgbt history #black trans history #black queer history

[soniccollagehouse]

they ate this look tf UP

#genderfluid #90s fashion #black queer history #a different world #androgynestyle

[ourhistorytoo]

Assotto Saint, born Yves Francois Lubin in Les Cayes, Haiti in 1957. Assotto was an author, editor, dancer and musician in the band Xotika with his partner Jan Holmes. Assotto was named after a ceremonial drum used in Haitian voodoo rituals -- tambou assoto. He took the name “Saint” after the Haitian revolutionary leader, Toussaint L’Ouverture.

Assotto edited The Road before us : 100 gay Black poets and encouraged Black gay men living with HIV to come out and disclose. Writing and publishing work became a means of living life and making sure the legacy of their artistic gay Black artistic community would not be forgotten. You can find his work and other gay Black anthologies like, In the Life, on Internet Archive.org. Sign up for an account and you can check the books out for an hour or 14 days.

#lbgtq history #black queer history #queer history #aids history #aids activism #queer literature

[gwydionmisha]

#California #Sen. Laphonza Butler #Black Queer History #US Politics #News

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: A League of Their Own star Lea Robinson "Bertie was a part of me & I was a part of Bertie"

Exclusive Interview: A League of Their Own star Lea Robinson “Bertie was a part of me & I was a part of Bertie”

Some of the most moving and powerful moments in Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson’s lovingly-crafted 1940s-set series A League of Their Own, involve the gender nonconforming uncle Bertie played Lea Robinson, and the relationship that builds between him and his niece Max (Chanté Adams). Bertie has long been estranged from his family when Max unexpectedly pays him a visit while she is in the process of…

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[i-love-sufjan-stevens]

Vintage Photos of Queer Couples of Color

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