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What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?

On being queer and mourning the loss of straight male friendships

In and out of the closet: Rejecting the heteronormative binary of “coming out”

Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

In a world where my parents let me be as free as Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union let Zaya

Black queer people were never #allJussieSmollett

2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck

The story of Black queer women imprisoned for defending themselves to reminds us this criminal system cannot save us

Queer isn’t who you are, it’s how you reclaim freedom. And even the gayest of us sometimes fail at it

My queerness won’t let me give up on my queerphobic Black parents

Black youth need more than public health strategies that read sexuality as diseased and immoral

Working through anti-Black ideas around HIV while my partner is HIV positive

Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating and selfish

Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization

Learning to love myself enough to f*ck raw while Black and HIV positive

The anti-Blackness of believing there’s no support for queerness in the hood

Amare Stoudemire Says He’d Avoid A Gay Teammate

Why I can’t hold onto the gospel of Pastor Kim Burrell

When white women and white gay men unite in victimhood

Wade Davis Talks Being Gay in Sports in New TED Talk

Michael Sam: ‘gay NFL players have reached out’

Proposed bill would allow doctors, EMTs to refuse to treat gay patients

Church denies family funeral because man was gay

The black HIV epidemic: a health mystery in Atlanta’s gay community

Tony Dungy on Michael Sam: ‘I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it’

Video: man attacked by 8 men at Detroit Pride Festival

We need black gay male couples on television

Michael Sam to be honored with Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPYs

Update: charges brought against 5 Hasidic men who beat black gay fashion student

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