from BBC by Michael Baggs Hundreds of thousands of people will line the streets on Saturday to celebrate the LGBT community at Pride in London. But many LGBT black people say they feel excluded at mainstream Pride events and experience racism on the gay scene. And that’s why, the day after Pride in London, UK […]
Read More →By Amy Ashenden for PinkNews Ahead of UK Black Pride, PinkNews spoke to several activists on what the event means to them as queer people of colour and how white LGBTQ+ people can be allies. Intersex activist Anick is part of the team behind this year’s UK Black Pride event in London on Sunday, July 8. Anick […]
Read More →Award-winning UK Black Pride is proud to announce its 2016 festival will be twinned with the inaugural Paris Black Pride festival. For more than a decade UK Black Pride has stood apart as Europe’s only pride event aimed at African, Arab, Asian and Caribbean-heritage Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people. The success of UK Black […]
Read More →— from Independent by Kevin Maxwell We then wonder why the visible gay scene is almost unequivocally white, male and gay. Meanwhile, gay social networking apps are awash with user statuses which read “No blacks or Asians” followed by “I’m not a racist, it’s just a preference” As a gay man who is mixed-race and […]
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