Join our Facebook group, follow up on Instagram and visit our website regularly. Email if you are interestedĮngage with us and Participate. There are lot of exciting opportunities available to assist with planing and executing online events, panels, picnics, parties, etc. Volunteers from across Ontario to join our organizing committee and help us execute our events. to help you break the monotony of being isolated during this time and hopefully add a little joy to you day More online features such as playlists, dance parties, etc.
#BLACK MATURE GAY MEN SERIES#
Stay tuned for updates via FB, Instagram and email.Ī revamped weekly mini profile series launching on Facebook and Instagram We realize that the immediate pandemic situation does not allow for in person events and so we will move as much activity online as possible. Funding has been provided by the OHTN and Black CAP will support us with space and administrative help. Our goal is to make the events fun and engaging, while aligning to our core focus areas. We are very excited to host a series of 20 events over 12 months across Ontario aimed at building strong sustained communities among black queer men to increase levels of connectedness, reduce alienation, combat stigma, and positively impact health outcomes. Launched our first individual profile series on FB. Sponsored a recurring party series (Grown and Sexy) targeted at the mature crowd
#BLACK MATURE GAY MEN TRIAL#
Held our first trial series of events funded by GMSH and ACCHO in Toronto and Ottawa We also created the BGMN Facebook page for those folks who are concerned about joining the public group. While our following is still small, ~320 followers across Facebook and Instagram, it continues to grow daily. Grew our social media following organically. Signed an operating agreement with Black CAP as the agency that will provide us with physical space and administrative support for the work funded by the OHTN Successfully secured funding to support 1 year of activities from the OHTN with the potential to extend to 18 months if successful Started discussions with GMSH regarding a formal relationship and a memorandum of understanding This article was amended on 22 June 2020 to correct a transcription error that caused the designer of Billy Porter’s Oscar ceremony dress to be named as Christian Milano, rather than Christian Siriano.Formalized the TOR and changed our name to the Black Gay Mens Network of Ontario That’s what was taken away from us.įinally Ready by The Shapeshifters featuring Billy Porter is out on Glitterbox Recordings on 26 June Then I got married, stood in front of my friends and my witnesses, and said my vows to my husband, and I was like, oh, right, this is what we didn’t really get. I didn’t know that lawful validation of my love was something I wanted or that I actually needed. The day it became legal in the US, I wept for an hour. I never thought that marriage would be possible. I am spiritual, but religion is man-made, and I’m not having that any more. So my chosen family became my support system. I grew up in the pentecostal church and that wasn’t very supportive for me. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Justice is 200-plus years of work, pissed away in three-and-a-half years by these fucking assholes. I’m not surprised by anything that’s going on right now.
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I have lived as a black gay man for 50 years in America. This is the fearmongering that still exists. The governor of Arkansas threatened to de-fund PBS in Arkansas if they ran the episode, because it’s perverted, it’s the gay agenda, and I’m gonna come into their home and molest their children. When they put up a picture of me standing on the steps, there was a backlash from the south. Sesame Street asked me to come on in the Christian Siriano dress, and they wrote a special song about friendship with me and a penguin. All that stuff is of no consequence to me, because I’m going to continue to do me. You can say whatever you want, you can tweet whatever you want, you can write in my comments. That doesn’t happen when you’re 20 – I had to live long enough. I give zero fucks about what anybody thinks that I’m doing. I don’t care what you think about me because I’m wearing a dress to the Oscars. What you’re seeing in the past two years is the result of me making that choice, all those years ago. That was what motivated me to do things differently. Nobody wanted to see me do anything but be the fairy clown. When I asked for what I wanted, I was dismissed.
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In the late 90s, I made the decision that that was no longer acceptable for me, and the work dried up. So I became a clown I became the flamboyant queen. This was the late 1980s, early 1990s, and nobody knew where to put that kind of energy in a mainstream way.
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When I started out in this business, I came to New York City and played my trump card, which was my singing voice.