5 Black Queer Celebrity Couples Whose Love Stories Aren't Just Beautiful, They're Essential
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December 21 2023 4:15 PM
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The world’s oldest and strongest international community of women of the African diaspora are the black sororities. Developed at a time when African Americans were barred entry into America’s hallowed halls of higher education, both black fraternities and sororities promoted excellence in scholarship and leadership in service. Black sororities arose at a time when traditional roles of women were being challenged, and stereotypes of African Americans were the iconography of the American landscape. There are four major sororities, all of which were established in the early 20th Century, including Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Howard University, 1908), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Howard University, 1913), Zeta Phi Beta (Howard University, 1920), and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority ( Butler University, 1922).
Residing a stone's throw from Salem, Massachusetts, as I celebrate Women's History Month, I am reminded of one of this nation's earliest examples of home-grown domestic terrorism - the Salem Witch Trails of 1692. This haunting history of the Puritan's execution of innocent women, and certain men too, is a window into how their religious fanaticism, misogyny, and homophobia destroyed not only the moral fiber of their town, but how it also decimated its own Christian zeal all to become a "city on the hill."
Missing from the annals of African American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and "queer." Valaida Snow, captured in Nazi- occupied Copenhagen under the umbrella of lesbian and interned in a concentration camp for nearly two years, is one such story forgotten every Black History Month in celebrating our heroes and survivors.
An outspoken ally to the LGBTQ community, Gloria Jean Watkins, a.k.a. bell hooks, is arguably the most widely published and known black feminist scholar ever, and no Women’s Studies courses here or abroad should be without her. Born and raised in the rural Kentucky, bell hooks uses her great-grandmother's name as her pseudonym to celebrate the female legacy of her family. hooks spells her pseudonym in all lowercase to emphasize her writings rather than her name, because as she says "it is the substance of my books, not who is writing them, that is important."
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The superhero world needs more badass queer women of color, like Grace Choi and Anissa Pierce!
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'Orphan is the New Black' is totally a real thing, ya'll.
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Rev. Irene Monroe, a lesbian mom, weighs in on Mo'Nique's Oscar win and what it means. The historical legacy of the devaluation and demonization of black motherhood was both applauded and rewarded at this years Oscars. And the point was clearly illustrated with Mo’Nique, capturing the gold statue for best supporting actress in Lee Daniels' movie 'Precious,' based on the novel Push by Sapphire, as a ghetto welfare mom who demeans and demoralizes her child at every turn.
In the spirit of Halloween, Rev. Irene Monroe reflects on the what she calls 'the nation's earliest examples of homegrown domestic terrorism --the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.' Monroe disucsses, Tituba, the black witch of Salem, who sparked the witchhunts, as a jumping off point to look at race, gender, lesbianism, the patriarchy and more.
More and more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of African descent are marrying. An idea that was once thought of as an anathema to black queer identity, marriage, in our LGBTQ communities, is being celebrated and on the rise.
Why getting an HIV test is the first step to valuing our lives.
The Grey's Anatomy cast is rocking our crossover world with the Orange is the New Black parody pic.
It's time to play some classic rock and shed some inhibitions (and clothing) at Broadway Bares: Rock Hard! Check out these portraits of the performers to help loosen your purse strings.
These artists need WAY more hype and airtime.
In 1967 the world forever changed for LGBTs, whether they knew it then or not, with a momentous night at an unassuming gay bar in Los Angeles.