Tag: black queer history
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Queer Black History – All Year Long.
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Blackness and our histories can’t be placed neatly into the confines of time. We envelope the universe, because our magic is expansive. Happy Black History Month!
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EMILE GRIFFITH
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Emile Griffith was the epitome of a reluctant boxing superstar. After moving to New York from the Virgin Islands in the early 1950’s, went from hat factory worker to professional boxer in just a few short years. On April 1, 1961, Emile stepped into the ring to fight reigning welterweight…
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RAYCEEN PENDARVIS
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pioneering and creating history is never easy. it is often only celebrated when revisited decades later and/or in remembrance of someone we lost. as a community, we sometimes struggle to give all of the roses to the icons who exist in plain site. that will not happen on this holy…