Professional roller skater Laron Gigger is recovering in the hospital after he suffered a crushed vertebra and two spinal fractures in a car crash. 🙏🏾
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For the first time in U.S. history a married Black LGBTQ couple will co-host a talk show airing simultaneously on AM and FM, traditional radio!
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🏳️🌈🗳️Democratic U.S. Representative Chris Pappas of New Hampshire has officially won his race for the U.S. Senate, becoming the first openly gay man ever elected to the United States Senate!
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October is LGBTQ+ History Month. 📜🏳️⚧️To conclude this annual observance, Gaye Magazine is spotlighting 10 Black transgender men who have shaped LGBTQ+ history in the 21st century.
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𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 — Black queer men deserve to be the center of their own stories without having to explain themselves to anyone else.
That belief drives comedian, actor and writer Dewayne Perkins’ “I Swear We’re Friends,” an independently produced YouTube comedy series that blends sketch comedy with sitcom storytelling.
The six-episode series, which Perkins created, wrote and directed, follows a group of Black queer friends whose personalities and complicated relationships fuel the humor.
Beyond the laughs, Perkins hopes the series challenges the idea that Black queer stories appeal only to a niche audience.
“Throughout my career I’ve been faced with this constant conversation around the lack of universality when it comes to Black queerness,” Perkins told Gaye Magazine exclusively.
Rather than explain Black queer experiences to outsiders, Perkins wants to let his characters exist as fully realized people.
The series embraces that universality through an ensemble of characters who are funny, flawed and unmistakably human...
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History has been made on HGTV! After 31 days inside Bihl Manor, the Long Beach designer took home $50,000 and became the first Black-masc-lesbian winner of an HGTV competition series.
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The @NAACPNYS New York State Conference honored Brandon Blackwood with the Design and Distinction Award at the Generations of Justice Gala. @bblackwoodnyc
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#GayeSports 🏐🇯🇵🌈— Japanese volleyball player Rui Takahashi has made LGBTQ+ sports history by publicly coming out as gay.
Takahashi’s announcement makes him the first Japanese male professional athlete to publicly come out as LGBTQ+. The 26-year-old, who is an outside hitter for the Suntory Sunbirds Osaka, shared the news earlier this week in a lengthy statement posted across his social media accounts.
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When Netflix announced it was bringing A Different World back to life, one of the most important decisions the production had to make was who was going to get the hair right.
They called Derek J! @derekjhair 💇🏽♀️🔥🔥
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#LGBTQHistoryMonth 📜🌈— LGBTQ Journalist Joseph Fenity’s Lost 9/11 Student Interviews Are Headed to the Library of Congress!
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🍿Thirty-nine years after “A Different World” first introduced America to Hillman College, Netflix returns Sept. 24 with the old school, a new class and something the original never had: an openly queer student at the center of the story. Meet actor Jordan Aaron Hall!
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Sergio Hudson shared that he would be joining as executive producer on Love, Patrick: Nothing Is Impossible, a documentary honoring Patrick Kelly, a legend in fashion history and a Black queer icon whose influence on the fashion industry has never fully been given its due.
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Kolhapur’s transgender disaster management and rescue team, believed to be India’s first, is made up of trans women trained to respond to floods, drowning incidents, road accidents and other emergencies.
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