coming out
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Q&A: Trans Activist Sean Ebony Coleman Wants Black People to Embrace LGBT Voices
Coleman became the LGBTQ advocate he needed but didn't have. Now, he provides LGBT aid and services to two major cities.
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“Bridgerton” Actor Was Told To Stay In The Closet In Order To Succeed By An Unnamed Lesbian Director
Some advice is meant to go in one ear and out the other.
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Apparently, There's a Right Way to Be Black and Gay. Thankfully, Lil Nas X Is Having None of It
As Pride Month comes to a close, Lil Nas X's out and proud BET Awards performance drew ire from some even within the Black LGBTQ community.
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Michael Sam Offers Words of Encouragement After Carl Nassib Comes Out as NFL's 1st Gay Player
The former seventh-round draft pick hoped to break the barrier himself but never played in a regular-season game.
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Rosario Dawson Purportedly 'Came Out' as Queer. Here's What It Can Teach Us About How We Talk About Sexuality
“People kept saying that I [came out]…I didn’t do that,” actress-activist Rosario Dawson recently told Bustle magazine, referencing a 2018 Pride Month post on Instagram in which she seemed to identify and align herself with the LGBTQ+ community—her “fellow LGBTQ+ homies,” to be exact. In the video accompanying the post, out-and-proud rapper Chika waxes poetic…
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Why Some Black LGBTQIA+ Folks Are Done 'Coming Out'
‘Inviting in’ is a way to complicate what is normally thought about as ‘coming out.’ —David Johns text David Johns’ issue with how society frames “coming out” stories stems from who we expect to tell them—and who we don’t. “I would be OK with the idea of coming out if it meant that everyone was…
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Janelle Monáe Says Dirty Computer Is a Soundtrack for Carefree Black Women Who Are ‘Beautiful as Fuck’
I woke up this morning to headlines of Janelle Monáe coming out as a “queer black woman.” Sure, this is something many of us speculated about and indulged over once we peeped the visuals for her new album, Dirty Computer, but to have the CEO, record label owner, CoverGirl, artist and actual black girl magician…
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Don Lemon Helped Me Come Out to My Mother and It Changed My Life Forever
Love for a black gay man is a scary endeavor, even radical, in a country where racism isn’t such a throwback, its reverberations leaving only harmful residue in communities of color. And when you consider the pervasive homophobia in a heteronormative and patriarchal society, living in your truth as both African American and queer almost…