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Category: Giving Them Their Roses

We Speak Their Names

may we all find the safety that we deserve. may we hold each other closer. and may we all continue…
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Posted on: November 22, 2022 Last updated on: November 22, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

SAM HARRIS

decades before american idol opened the floodgates for the talent show genre of reality tv, there was the ultimate variety…
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Posted on: July 30, 2022 Last updated on: July 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

UNCANNY ALLIANCE

in the early 1990s, there was no shortage of dance groups from new york garnering national notoriety at both the…
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Posted on: June 30, 2022 Last updated on: June 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

VICTORIA ARELLANO

Today is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). It is a day to educate our communities about the…
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Posted on: April 10, 2022 Last updated on: April 10, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson: A Deep Appreciation Of

i met robert on the very first day of school of the seventh grade in september 1989. i knew as soon…
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Posted on: February 14, 2022 Last updated on: February 14, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

CAUSHUN

“Would there ever be a place for black gay/queer/SGL in hip hop?”, a question I asked myself in my youth.…
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Posted on: February 10, 2022 Last updated on: February 10, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

OAKTOWN’S 357

oaktown’s 357 were one of hip-hop’s most exciting groups of the early 1990s. heir combination of catchy rhymes, dope fashions,…
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Posted on: February 7, 2022 Last updated on: February 7, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

LIZ TORRES

one of the first chicago house music singers to garner national notoriety in the mid-80s, especially in gay clubs, liz…
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Posted on: January 31, 2022 Last updated on: February 1, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

MARTHA WASH

martha wash is one of the greatest vocalists in music history. and i would wager my mariah carey cd collection…
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Posted on: December 28, 2021 Last updated on: December 28, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

MARY JANE GIRLS

the pointer sisters, sister sledge and vanity 6 were my earliest introduction to the miracle that is the girl group…
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Posted on: December 10, 2021 Last updated on: February 1, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

LADY CATIRIA

Catiria Reyes, widely known as Lady Catiria, was a Puerto Rican trans woman born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Like many…
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Posted on: November 19, 2021 Last updated on: November 19, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Earvin Magic Johnson

1991 marked a decade of what it is now regarded as the AIDS crisis. the hope that emerged after the…
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Posted on: October 21, 2021 Last updated on: October 21, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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