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Pariah: Shadow And Act Challenges Black Folks On The Controversial Lesbian Coming Out Film

  From Shadow And Act: As I mentioned last week, starting this week, Focus Features is taking the unusual step of screening Dee Rees’ Pariah for the media, activist and support groups, and just plain regular folks, some 4 months before its release on Christmas Day in NY, Chicago and LA, and the rest of [...]

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Thursday September 15th, 2011 in , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

The Unblackness Of Don Lemon And Barack Obama

There’s something about black people that when there is one among us, or one who claims us as their own, has a variation in pedigree or even something as benign as speech, we are quick to highlight to them their separateness from other black people.

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Wednesday May 18th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , | 27 Comments »

Gayle King Hosts Dan Savage: The Tragic Disconnect Between Black Media And Black SGL/Gay America

We don’t even know where to begin with this one. After thinking about it over the last couple of days we decided to just write a letter to Gayle King directly and sharing our feelings about Dan Savage’s appearance this past week on The Gayle King Show.  Did any of you see it? We missed [...]

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Saturday March 26th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | 33 Comments »

NAACP Gets Gay Leaders, Hopes To Attract Young Members With Diversity

From AP News: WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The NAACP’s newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned [...]

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Wednesday March 23rd, 2011 in , , , , | 4 Comments »

While Uppity Gay Black Folks Frown On Chris Brown’s Latest Tantrum We Got A Video Of His Wee Wee

Sometimes we just don’t know…black people—-including gay black folks, can be a little over the top in the judgmental department. We don’t understand how that is. Actually it kinda seems a bit embarrassing when we’re exposed to it. Like, how you gonna be so grand and morally superior when black folks make up the highest [...]

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Wednesday March 23rd, 2011 in , , | 22 Comments »

Eddie Long Mediation Hits Snag: Both Sides Say No, You Go First

No, folks this is not a round of good manners. According to Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) mediation scheduling between Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and the four men who have accused him of sexual coercion has been held up until Judge Panos gives the order on which of the two sides [...]

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Wednesday January 5th, 2011 in , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Call For Anthology Submissions: Black Men And Their Stories Of Sexual Abuse

Deadline: 4 March 2011 Anthology Background Information and Guidelines The genesis of this literary project began with the recent revelation/allegations (depending on who you’re speaking with) of a popular African-American minister at the center of an sex abuse scandal involving former young male members of his high profile church. Websites and blogs were inundated with [...]

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Monday January 3rd, 2011 in , , , , , , | 16 Comments »