Kenyon on Colorlines.com: 50 Cent’s New Pocketbook Values: Anti-Gay Won’t Pay, Even for Hip Hop

Just published a new piece on Colorlines.com about the Mister Cee from Hot 97 sex scandal: The arrest last week of Hot 97 DJ and hip-hop legend Mister Cee for allegedly having commercial sex with a 20-year-old transgender woman has … Continue reading read more »

Rep. Barbara Lee on Hate Crimes Bill

As much as I don’t think hate crimes legislation will do anything to curb or combat homophobic violence, I am at least happy to see Rep. Barbara Lee talk about Black and Latino LGBT folks–which quite frankly very few politicians … Continue reading read more »

Housing Works Update: Where Are All the Black Gay Men?

This article from Housing Works’ Weekly Update raises similar issues I raised in my op-ed for The Defenders Online about HIV/AIDS in the Black community, and the silence around Black gay men. Two weeks ago individuals and organizations across the … Continue reading read more »

Senegal Sentences 9 Gay HIV Activists to Prison. For Being Gay.

Despite my celebrating the recent Uganda high court decision in favor of several lesbians abused by police, we still obviously have a long way to go. This past week, a Senegalese court sentenced 8 gay men who worked for AIDES … Continue reading read more »

Blacks, Gay Men At Highest Risk for HIV

The US Conference on AIDS has begun in Fort Lauderdale, unfortunately I couldn’t afford to go, but just as well because I am going to see my southern friends at Southerners on New Ground’s 15th Anniversary. But given the CDC’s … Continue reading read more »

Tecumseh Roberts: Gay Murder and Nation-making in Liberia

I have this theory–nationalism is bad for queers. Why? It seems to me that many nationalist movements are framed around an idea of nationhood that equates resistance with (hetero) masculinity. The idea of building a nation then means that the … Continue reading read more »

Call Tyrone!: Gambian Prez Orders Queers "Out"

I am growing interested in the way narratives, and means of conveying morality in political rhetoric crosses borders. I am no scholar in this field, but I am beginning to find similar lines of thought in political messaging both here … Continue reading read more »

Housing, Gentrification and Queer Safety Actions in NYC Tomorrow

There are three really interesting actions taking place this weekend in NYC to bring attention to issues that are critical to poor & working class people, blacks and Latinos—particularly women, and queer/gender non-conforming people (and all the places where those … Continue reading read more »

Raisin' Hell: Obama Hires Homophobic Gospel Acts

I am late to blog this but school is sucking the life force out of me so until late December, expect me to not be as on top of things as I should be (which is ironic, since I am … Continue reading read more »

Another Loss: Roberto Duncanson

Today I received a troubling email from a friend at the Rashawn Brazell Memorial Fund. They received and email from someone who knew Roberto Duncanson, who the writer of the email says people in the Black gay community knew as … Continue reading read more »