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Queerness Beyond Sexuality, Into Identity, and Toward a Truly Liberated Future

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Queerness Beyond Sexuality, Into Identity, and Toward a Truly Liberated Future

aesmith1906 June 30, 2021

Today is the final day of Pride month 2021. As a Black Queer man, this month always has me reflecting quite deeply on how the meaning of Pride resonates with me and how it continues to evolve over time. Growing up, we were taught to synonymize Queerness solely with sexuality. A man should not lay with another man. There is Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Years of...

To Be Black and Queer: A Divine Opportunity to Reject, Redefine, and Reimagine

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To Be Black and Queer: A Divine Opportunity to Reject, Redefine, and Reimagine

aesmith1906 October 11, 2020

Today, October 11, 2020, is “National Coming Out Day.” National Coming Out Day is an annual observance that began in 1988. Its ostensible purpose is to celebrate Queer liberation and to honor those who have journeyed toward self-discovery, embraced new self-acceptance, and risked public scrutiny. While decades of Queer observance, prides, media representations, laws, and practices have ushered incremental movement toward true liberation of Queer indivduals, there is a...

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