Giving Them Their Roses

CAUSHUN

“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…

For the past seven years, Gran Varones has grown from a local initiative in Philadelphia to a national and award-winning…

the category is celebration and the winner is the incomparable miss mj rodriguez. on june 3, 2018 “pose” premiered on…

to be a global pop star who was gay but not out during the height of the AIDS epidemic meant…

years before i knew who tony viramontes was, i knew of his art. sometime in 1986, three years before i…

often times when historians speak of those who were on the front lines of AIDS advocacy, it is framed in…