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In the Family CELEBRATING the BUILDERS of BLACK GAY COMMUNITIES Preface the Work Contained in This Book Reflects the Experiences, Pains, and Joys of the Contributors BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL in the family CELEBRATING THE BUILDERS OF BLACK GAY COMMUNITIES Preface The work contained in this book reflects the experiences, pains, and joys of the contributors. As with the best parties, you seldom get to invite everyone you wanted to, or not everyone can make it, but we hope that this is a celebration that will continue for many years to come. Whether you are a member of the heterosexual Black community, the white gay community, or any other community, we welcome you: explore, experience and learn. If you’re a Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered person: we celebrate you. As Black gay people, we claim and are claimed by two communities - the Black community and the gay community. The Black community often sees us as outsiders, although we are at every family gathering and have been part of every struggle. The gay community tends to be a white male enclave in which we are the unseen, although we aim to change that too. In producing this booklet, part of our mission is to reduce external and internal homophobia and to make Black gay people feel better about themselves and their sexuality. We feel that the time has come for everyone to recognise and celebrate the achievements of Black gay men and women. It is important that we are acknowledged as positive contributors to the culture and history of both Black people in the UK, and the wider gay community. Black gay communities are, and have been, an integral part of the struggle of Black people and gay people everywhere. This publication is produced by Big Up @ GMFA (Gay Men Fighting AIDS) for Black gay men and women and their heterosexual friends and supporters. It is a celebration of diversity, and in keeping with this spirit we have used images from a variety of sources. No assumptions should therefore be made about the sexuality or politics of the individuals featured; they are all our friends. We thank all those who contributed a short story, poem, or photograph to this publication. We are also especially grateful to our team of volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this project possible. Main front & inside back cover photographs C Terence Facey. Small front cover photographs C Robert Taylor. Back cover photograph C Charles Kwesi Sagoe. Big Up @ GMFA Contents preface 2 Rotimi Fani Kayode 34 contents & key 3 Justin Fashanu 35 foreward 4 Steven Luckie 36 workshops 6 Oscar Lumley-Watson 37 Dirg Aaab-Richards 7 Robert Maragh 38 Ajamu 8 Valerie Mason-John AKA Queenie 39 Exist 9 David McAlmont 40 Lord Waheed Alli 10 Call Me 41 Mel B 11 Kobena Mercer 42 Allister Bain 12 Cyril I. Nri 43 Rikki Beadle Blair 13 Bill Morris 44 Linda Bellos 14 Simon Nelson 45 Big Up 15 Bruce Oldfield OBE 46 Reduce The Risk 1 16 Postcards from the edge 47 Big Up @ GMFA 17 Arthur Peters 48 Blackliners 18 Cardi Revere 49 BLAGAM 19 Vernal Scott 50 Walking Through My Fire 20 Labi Siffre 51 Paul Boakye 21 Dorothea Smartt 52 Topher Campbell 22 Robert Taylor 53 Dennis L. Carney 23 Ted Walker-Brown 54 Delroy Constantine-Simms 24 Martin Patrick Wallace 55 Jaye Davidson 25 Reduce The Risk 2 56 Terence Facey 26 Afro 57 Professor Stuart Hall 27 Selected Reading 59 Dispelling The Ghost 28 Useful Contacts 62 Isaac Julien 29 How to quit smoking 30 Clubs: past and present 31 Edited by Paul Boakye Club Flyers 32 Design: Offbeat Design The Key fashion literature music visual arts performing arts sport politics health scene organisations Foreword The scar on my wrist is a reminder of a time in my life when, at 16, death seemed more appealing to me than life itself. My only friend at the time seemed to be disco music and the fantasies in my head. Yet, from that experience I have learnt to love myself and to live ‘Our visibility as my life. My desire to die was prompted by Black gay men is homophobia in the Black community and fears what will help about how my parents and siblings would react reduce suicides to my sexuality. I am a different person today amongst our own and killing myself is not on my agenda. and help pave the I launched the People’s Group in 1985, a way towards our multi-racial group for gay men. The Group was an greater success in attempt to get below the superficial façade of the the future’ ‘gay community’ and to shed some light on our various cultures and backgrounds. It was a resounding success with an average attendance of 45 plus each week. I knew that we were offering something valuable to the participants … and then AIDS/HIV hit. During the relatively short lifetime of the Group, I became concerned about AIDS and the impact it was beginning to have on people around me. I don’t remember making a decision about getting involved, I just did, there was nothing more important to do with my life; that’s how it felt. So the last 17 years has been spent contributing to the HIV agenda in various guises. I’ve lost countless friends and two members of my immediate family to the disease, including a brother. HIV and racism have threatened to take away our achievements and I feel a responsibility to do something about it. I’ve always felt a responsibility to be visible and to make a difference in the world. Our visibility as Black gay men is what will help reduce suicides amongst our own and help pave the way towards our greater success in the future. Visibility and our continued existence and advancement go hand in hand in my book. With love as our goal, we will survive! Today my life is what I have designed it to be. I live well and have embraced an existence that reflects the essence of my ‘HIV and racism spirit and aspirations. Love is my goal and my concept have threatened of ‘God’ has a special meaning in my life. I have to take away our good reason to be proud, not just of my personal achievements achievements, but that of my Black gay brothers and and I feel a sisters who are doing great work in the arts, business, responsibility to law, music, medicine and everything else. We should do something all be proud. I also acknowledge and respect about it’ my brothers out there who are living with HIV and AIDS - keep on fighting, keep on living. We are all survivors of sorts. Vernal Scott Organisational Development Manager Brent Council, London, September 2001. workshops for gay men GMFA run a series of issues and skills based workshops throughout the year. Call for a complete listing. Details below are for upcoming workshops 2001 - 2002 Assertiveness for HIV+ve men 27 & 28 Oct, 17 Nov, 8 & 9 Dec (5 days) Cruising Skills 27 Oct (1 day) Skills For Gay Life 24 Nov, 1 & 8 Dec (3 days) Assertiveness for Gay Men 12 & 13 Jan, 2, 23 & 24 Feb (5 days) Safety Skills 26 Jan, 2 & 9 Feb (3days) Assertiveness for Gay Men 9 & 10 Feb, 2, 23 & 24 March (5 days) SM Sex 16, 23 & 24 Feb (3 days) There is a new series of Basement Sessions planned... register your interest now. To find out more about any of the workshops to register your interest or to book a place, call James on 020 7738 3712. Dirg Aaab-Richards b. 1956, London Dirg was one of the first active volunteer members of the London Gay Black Group. He attended the first ever meeting for Blackliners, and founded the 1984-85 Lesbian and Gay Society at Goldsmiths College. He was the Black Lesbian & Gay Centre (BLGC) Project’s first Black Gay Men’s Outreach and Development Worker 1985 - 1989. As part of his work for BLGC, he organised nation-wide poetry and performance events for (and personally accommodated both) poet Essex Hemphill (decd.) and musician Blackberri, using these events as vehicles to promote the visibility of Black gay men and lesbians. Along with colleagues, he was an active participant in the international campaign (with GLAAD - Gays and Lesbians Against Defamation) objecting to Buju Banton’s offensive record Boom Bye Bye and Shabba Ranks’ homophobic outburst on television programme The Word. By bringing an increasing cross-section of individuals together, Dirg has helped to facilitate the development of a Black gay and lesbian community that had never before enjoyed such visibility or cohesiveness. He has lent his voice to many initiatives and campaigns, and as a result, his social circle is wider and stronger than even he could have ever imagined. Ajamu b. 1965, Huddersfield “My photographic practice and politics both emanate from a culture of otherness. My work challenges the bullshit in which those of us with culturally forbidden lives/desires are represented (or hidden) within Western society.” Ajamu is a photographer, cultural activist, and producer of Black queer arts festivals. Since 1990, his practice has explored the complex terrain of Black masculinity, same gender relationships, gender fuck and sadomasochism. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and alternative spaces throughout the world including New York, Sao Paulo, Berlin, London and Amsterdam. In 1993, he was a co-founder of Wickers and Bullers; Europe’s first commercially produced Black queer magazine. In 1996, he created The Black Perverts Network, a safer sex club for Black and Asian men into underwear and fetish gear. In 2000, along with filmmaker/theatre director Topher Campbell, he launched rukus! (a Black queer arts organisation) at The I.C.A.
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