Black gay bars are closing while everybody profits off Black queer culture. Ballroom gets copied, our slang gets recycled, our aesthetics get monetized, & suddenly non-Black people are the face of “Black gay” events.
How do u consume the culture but erase the people who built it?
Some of you niggas are struggling to function in society because you refuse to seek help through therapy or other means, which ultimately leads you into being undiagnosed/unmedicated.
Truly hope y’all find a way to break the stigma and seek the help you need before it destroys you. You’ll thank yourself for it at some point in life!
All the pics from this weekend bring me so much joy man. Theres an entire generation of black gay men that use to DREAM of this. Truly feel so privileged to live my little black gay life
There is something profoundly beautiful and profoundly hard about being a gay Black man in this world. You carry the full weight of Blackness in spaces that don’t always center you, and the full weight of queerness in spaces that don’t always welcome you.