In honor of both Gay pride and Juneteenth

[ruggerson]

we should honor GLBT people of color who lived in the shadows of both homophobia and racism during the fifties and sixties and earlier.

Bayard Rustin
James Baldwin
Langston Hughes
Barbara Jordan
Zora Neale Hurston
Billy Strayhorn
Lorraine Hansbury
Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Ethel Waters
Samuel R. Delany

and many, many others.

Feel free to add your own. It's important that we honor and claim them, so that they can be remembered for who they actually were, their entire legacy, not just whitewashed by heterosexism in the history books.

[MikeE]

1. Great post!

:hi:

[mitchtv]

2. Johnny Mathis

[Duncan Grant]

3. Alain Locke

Alain Leroy Locke

Search for references to Alain Locke at the glbtq encyclopedia.



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[MNBrewer]

10. Through my work, I happen to have discovered that there is a family of

charter high schools named after him in Los Angeles.

[Duncan Grant]

4. I'm going to kick this a few times. It's an important thread.

Thanks, ruggerson. :thumbsup:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. audre lorde

[Duncan Grant]

6. kick

:kick:

[ruggerson]

7. Alvin Ailey

n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Check this blog report out....

Ur So Gay: The Invisible Lives of Famous Black Gays and Lesbians

[Laughing Mirror]

9. Moms Mabley

Josephine Baker

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Angela Davis

[foreigncorrespondent]

12. A kick and...

...also a reminder that people of colour in some parts of the world are still living with both racism and homophobia in todays society.

My wife-to-be is a full blooded Aboriginal woman, and not only does she face the usual small country town racism for being black, but also the homophobia we face together for daring to be an openly gay couple.

My partner is a very talented but retired stage and screen actress who is known in these parts, but the only reason she got the jobs she got was because of her looks. She is a stunning looking woman who has been told she doesn't have the traditional look of an Aboriginal woman, but rather a more exotic look. And as a white person in this country, hearing that rubbed me the wrong way. Especially after knowing what white Australia has done to her people in the past.

[Duncan Grant]

13. kick for unity

:kick:

[omega minimo]

14. Juneteenth history

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5866170