‘Black queer people fall between the cracks.’ These words ring true for many Black people in the LGBTQ+ community. Today we meet the those behind the podcast that brings to life an archive of Black queer Britain.
, a digital community archive of Black queer history curated by the pair.
It also impacted the older generation who were able to memorialise lost friends, reminiscence and reconnect with others and share their stories. As someone who is constantly searching for Black queer history, I was really excited to be asked to work on the podcast as an Assistant Producer. I didn’t know about all the Black queer movements that were happening across the UK. I certainly didn’t expect to find it in the areas of London I grew up in, on the streets I would walk to school and round the corner from where I went to get my hair done.
I met Brown at Housman’s bookshop, a radical place and the epicentre of so many important political causes like the lesbian and gay movement, the UK branch of the Gay Liberation Front and the women’s movement. A picture from Gay Times of Roy Anthony Brown in 1986 at the Hippodrome, where he was crowned winner of Mr Gay Britain. As part of the podcast he spoke to asexuality activist Yasmin Benot and the complexities of public image
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