I really want to thank Sharon Bridgforth for sharing this video called “6 Rules For Allies”, as I learned about through it my friend, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano. Definitely food for thought for me in light of my recent posts about support the queer family in Africa. It’s food for though for me speaking [...]
Posts Tagged ‘black gay’
Texas gay filmmaker, Marlon Riggs, celebrated this weeked at South Dallas Cultural Center
This weekend in Dallas, February 19 -21, Black Cinematheque Dallas, along with Fahari Arts Institute, DFW Senators, and Mandrake Arts & Media will be hosting a Marlon Riggs Film Festival. The films and shorts begin at 7pm each night at the South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh in Dallas and nightly entry fee [...]
Podcast: Conversation with Buster Spiller
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I’ve written on this blog and other places that one of my favorite experiences after accepting myself as a gay man was taking part in a inter-generational discussion of black gay men every other Saturday in Houston called The Men’s Gathering. Today, I’m speaking with one of the architects of the The Men’s Gathering in [...]
All-Star Weekend parties around the gayborhood
This weekend in Dallas is about to be crazy with the NBA All-Star game and all its parties. Many organizations serving our community are in on it, too, including Southern Boi Entertainment, Men of Essence, Women of Distinction, 7Connection, and SmooveQ Productions. So make sure you check the calendar for all of the latest [...]
Trailers for upcoming Texas Black Film Festival in Dallas
Since Dallas is hosting the Creating Change event at the downtown Sheraton hotel, a lot of my energy has been focused on that here at the blog. However, John Meyer and the gang at Pegasus News grabbed some great trailers for this year’s Texas Black Film Festival screenings happening February 4 – 6 at [...]
Black Gay Comics: Celebrating the work of Belasco
Thick and muscled. Black and Brown. Erotic and fetishistic. Always well-equipped to handle any situation. These are the characters of from the pen and mind of Black gay artist, Belasco. Some background on Belasco, the artist, from GBMNews:
Belasco began creating homoerotic imagery in 1991 for small press magazines such as Thing, Kick and JFY [...]
Podcast: Thinking about human rights
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A short show as the first Mandrake Society Radio podcast of 2010, and I’m thinking about Bayard Rustin and his work towards international human rights, which include economic rights, social rights, cultural rights, developmental rights, environmental rights, and sexual rights. Some links for today’s show:
J*Davey’s track can be found at Bandcamp as a free [...]
Not the Same Way: Uganda, sexual idenity and race
While reading Behind the Mask this morning, I ran across a repost of a story from the Daily Monitor which mentions Speaker Edward Ssekandi’s insistence to debate the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan parliament despite rebuttal from the international community and President Yoweni Musuveni’s pledge to the US State Department to veto the bill should [...]
