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For over 20 years, Tracee McDaniel has been a permanent fixture in trans activism in Atlanta. With a historic appointment by former...

When Magic Johnson announced during a press conference in 1991 that he’d acquired HIV, Masonia Traylor, 34, was only four-years-old. And...

In 1989, Malcolm Reid, 63, had gone to so many funerals that he lost count. He remembers being so emotionally exhausted from burying...

If you ask David Wilmott, 38, and Darnell Morgan, 34, co-owners of the new Kennesaw restaurant Forks & Flavors how long they’ve been...

By Dionne Walker Growing up in the progressive Washington D.C. area, lesbian-identified Britney Lee never gave a thought to whether she’d...

Something is happening on blackgayweddings.com, and that something reaches beyond the dozens of Black LGBTQ+ couples prominently featured...

Before Lady Gaga released her gay anthem “Born This Way” in 2011, singer Carl Bean, an openly gay Black man signed to Motown Records...

Three is not a crowd for Que Brown, 28, Tye Brown, 26, and Martel Star, 27. The Tallahassee, FL and Mansfield, OH transplants are one of...

There will never be another Sylvester. From the grave, his spirit, music, and unapologetic queerness during an era that would have...

The name Paris Barclay is synonymous with television. The two-time Emmy award-winning director was blazing a path in Hollywood and...

“I’m gonna get hurt.” That’s what Deondray Gossfield, 47, recalls saying to himself in the fall of 1996 after meeting Quincy Gossfield,...

Before E. Lynn Harris (1955-2009) became a nationally recognized and critically acclaimed author, his manuscript for what would become...

Gay dating coach and matchmaker Lamont White, 40, has been successfully introducing single Black gay men in Atlanta and across the United...

At 45-years-old, Darnell Moore is coasting on blessings. For much of the last decade, Moore has been a formidable force in the movement...

Brooklyn, NY-based photographer Francesco Di Benedetto is using his camera to tell the stories of dozens of gay and queer men, including...

Juan Smalls says he simply wanted to be liberated. As one half of the highly visible married couple known by many as Juan & Gee and the...

There’s a three-day period in Lovell Lykaon’s life where he has no recollection of the events that transpired that caused him to be...

Perry Meeks, 39, master barber and owner of The Grain Grooming Studio in Buckhead is affectionately called Blanca by many of his...

Congratulations! If you’re reading this then you managed to survive the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic to ring in the new year....

By Justin C. Smith Back in late August, I received a text message from my friend Keon stating that he was going to be traveling to...