(via masculinfeminin:noteasybeingred:bloodythumbs)

(via masculinfeminin:noteasybeingred:bloodythumbs)

The faaaaabbbulous 21 year old fashion designer, Laquan Smith.

(via loldarian)

bonesarecoralmade:

dominickbrady:

I think it’s important to remember the voices of Black Gay and Lesbian ancestors in The United States and the double, sometimes triple layered application of prejudice they had to go through.  There would be no Harlem Renaissance without these ancestors—they nearly embodied the creative drive that fueled it.  This country also owes a debt to those who fought in the Black civil rights movement both white and black.

And we all need to feel shame in that in many ways we’re turning our back on this history like it never happened, like these spirits aren’t part of our community.

Yeah, I’ll be labeled for posting stuff like this.  Not on Tumblr, but by folk who read this blog coming from facebook, twitter, etc.  That’s okay.

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It Did Not Start With Stonewall (via adodom)

Our revolution didn’t start with Stonewall. African-American lesbian elders tell the tales of gay New York life in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx before the world-altering Stonewall rebellion. In this clip they recall, raids and suffocating laws and racial discrimination faced within the gay community.

Came across this preparing some Black History Month posts, and figured they’re definitely some Black American Women You Need To Know. Unfortunately I can’t find any credits to know their names or what it’s excerpted from. If anyone knows, please share!

“We paid an awful lot of dues, so that the younger people of today can feel the freedom to walk along holding hands”.

via curate

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Outrageous Grace: Tonéx’s music and career, and what his story reveals about the relationship between gospel music and sexuality. With excerpts from his music and the interview in which Tonéx came out.

(via The New Yorker)
The artwork of Glenn Ligon The 49-year-old Bronx-born, queer artist is probably most famous for his text paintings, which he’s made since the ’80s, appropriating words by everyone from Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison toRichard Pryor. Sometimes a line floats in the center of the canvas, and other times it repeats manically from top to bottom, covered over in paint until it’s almost aggressively illegible. Such sentences that flicker in and out of abstraction include: I do not always feel colored and I was a nigger for twenty-three years. I gave that shit up. No Room for advancement. Clearly, Ligon relies heavily on the legacy of writers, but he also actively engages with the history of abstract painting. In other pieces, however, he takes that fight between readability and revolt away from the canvas and the oils—particularly in a number of neon works, where the white neon bar is covered over in black, giving the simultaneous sense of illumination and blackout. Recently, the artist even entered the film business. His piece The Death of Tom is an abstractionist restaging of the last scene in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the silent movie filmed by Thomas Edison’s studio in 1903. Ligon asked experimental jazz musician Jason Moran to create the soundtrack for the film—“playing to the shadows,” as the young musician puts it. Here, the two talk about the importance of learning things that aren’t always written down. (text via interview)

The artwork of Glenn Ligon

The 49-year-old Bronx-born, queer artist is probably most famous for his text paintings, which he’s made since the ’80s, appropriating words by everyone from Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison toRichard Pryor. Sometimes a line floats in the center of the canvas, and other times it repeats manically from top to bottom, covered over in paint until it’s almost aggressively illegible. Such sentences that flicker in and out of abstraction include: I do not always feel colored and I was a nigger for twenty-three years. I gave that shit up. No Room for advancement. Clearly, Ligon relies heavily on the legacy of writers, but he also actively engages with the history of abstract painting. In other pieces, however, he takes that fight between readability and revolt away from the canvas and the oils—particularly in a number of neon works, where the white neon bar is covered over in black, giving the simultaneous sense of illumination and blackout. Recently, the artist even entered the film business. His piece The Death of Tom is an abstractionist restaging of the last scene in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the silent movie filmed by Thomas Edison’s studio in 1903. Ligon asked experimental jazz musician Jason Moran to create the soundtrack for the film—“playing to the shadows,” as the young musician puts it. Here, the two talk about the importance of learning things that aren’t always written down.

(text via interview)

Azmarie modeling for TELFAR’s collaboration with American Apparel (Un.Der T.). “The new collection takes the humble tee into entirely uncharted territory, and some FADER staffers have even dubbed the new look Hospital Chic. If surgical scrubs of the future look anything like this, then clearly the healthcare system is in safe hands.” (via The Fader)

Azmarie modeling for TELFAR’s collaboration with American Apparel (Un.Der T.).

“The new collection takes the humble tee into entirely uncharted territory, and some FADER staffers have even dubbed the new look Hospital Chic. If surgical scrubs of the future look anything like this, then clearly the healthcare system is in safe hands.”

(via The Fader)
The one and only RuPaul. weeeerrrrrrk! (via concreteloop)

The one and only RuPaul. weeeerrrrrrk!

(via concreteloop)

"In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single sub-society —Black or gay— I felt I didn’t have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To be proper. To look “nice”. To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn’t realize was how much harder I had to try merely to stay alive, or rather, to stay human. How much stronger a person I became in that trying."
— Audre Lorde “Zami: a New Spelling of My Name”
David Agbodji for Calvin Klein. Black is Beautiful.

David Agbodji for Calvin Klein. Black is Beautiful.

Loving this cute Younger Lovers video for “Sha-Boo-Bee” featuring Brontez Purnell - my favorite queer punk kid. (via think pink radio)

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