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Black people are stereotyped as uniformly hostile to gay people, but it does not take much research to disprove that notion. Essence Magazine, the leading magazine for African-American women, has made history by publishing a slideshow of a lesbian wedding. The lucky couple featured on the site are Aisha Mills and Danielle Moody, from Washington, [...]
Last week I wrote about Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who held the first public gay commitment ceremony in Malawi’s history. (Monjeza is on the left, Chimbalanga on the right) At the time, I mentioned how their bravery in stating their love for each other, considering that homosexuality is illegal in Malawi. The BBC reports [...]
Aside from South Africa writing support for gay marriage into its constitution, you don’t often hear positive LGBT news about Africa. So it’s great to discover people who are standing up for themselves in the face of circumstances much more challenging than those faced by people in the United States. Despite homosexuality being illegal in [...]
Christmas came early for the black LGBT community thanks to Jeff Johnson. On December 17, Johnson used his platform on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show to declare that black America needs to have a serious conversation about homophobia in the community. Analyzing Annise Parker’s mayoral victory in Houston, in which the black community [...]
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Just one day after I mentioned how surveillance culture and technological advances have given everyone access to your private behavior, here comes another example of what can happen in the age of the internet. When Michael Cole Smith and Jamil Smith got married several weeks ago, they posted photos of the event on Facebook for [...]
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Here is the latest from The Next Write Things’s favorite guest author, designer, and vainglorious vanguardist Charles Brown. ——————- Last week, I went to Destin, Florida for a family wedding. Being the creative spirit that I am, a 7+hour road trip was just the setting I needed to zone in. I finally got out a [...]
TNWT is proud to welcome a guest posting by Charles Brown, “Author, Designer, and Vainglorious Vanguardist.” This if the first of what I hope will be many articles from Charles. ——– I was thinking about people. Men in particular, but folks in general. And how difficult it seems to find someone to date and eventually [...]
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