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…

decades before american idol opened the floodgates for the talent show genre of reality tv, there was the ultimate variety…

in the early 1990s, there was no shortage of dance groups from new york garnering national notoriety at both the…

Today is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). It is a day to educate our communities about the…

i met robert on the very first day of school of the seventh grade in september 1989. i knew as soon…

“Would there ever be a place for black gay/queer/SGL in hip hop?”, a question I asked myself in my youth.…

oaktown’s 357 were one of hip-hop’s most exciting groups of the early 1990s. heir combination of catchy rhymes, dope fashions,…

one of the first chicago house music singers to garner national notoriety in the mid-80s, especially in gay clubs, liz…

martha wash is one of the greatest vocalists in music history. and i would wager my mariah carey cd collection…

the pointer sisters, sister sledge and vanity 6 were my earliest introduction to the miracle that is the girl group…

Catiria Reyes, widely known as Lady Catiria, was a Puerto Rican trans woman born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Like many…

1991 marked a decade of what it is now regarded as the AIDS crisis. the hope that emerged after the…