Award-winning LGBT stand-up comedian, writer and activist Sampson McCormick, black and gay and watching his stock rise, this young man is among a new generation of LGBT activists helping to reshape the comedy landscape. When it comes to inclusion, history will not look kindly on many black comedians. Taking their hyperbolic machismo ethos on stage,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thursday, NASTAD released the 2017 National ADAP Monitoring Project Annual Report (The Report) and corresponding infographics. Since 1996, NASTAD has provided comprehensive information on AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) through The Report, which contains background information as well as detailed findings and corresponding charts and tables. All the resources related to the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. and around the world, announced today that CDC-funded local jurisdictions will join its membership—a first in the organization’s 25-plus year history. Public health…
When news hit the airwaves that Bishop Eddie Long died from an unnamed aggressive cancer resulting in dramatic weight lost, many now throughout the Black Church community wonder if his death was due to HIVAIDS, and he was too embarrassed to admit it or seek medical care until it was too late. “If he had…
Gospel music undeniably has a queerness at its roots that has not only shaped the genre but it has continued to give gospel music its enduring vibrancy. One of black gospel’s darlings and Pentecostal preacher Kim Burrell was ousted from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, sending shock waves throughout the African American community. Burrell along with…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – NASTAD (National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors), has announced the launch of a new online training platform, HisHealth.org, to help doctors, nurses, and medical professionals unlearn racial biases that create barriers to good care and elevate the quality of healthcare for black gay men and black men who have sex…
https://youtu.be/DdqbYjivr1o To an outsider, Tracey Norman had it all. She was a sought after model who graced the pages of top fashion magazines and had her face on a box of Clairol hair color. Inside, she was harboring a secret: she was transgender. When her secret was revealed, her modeling career came to an abrupt…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National LGBTQ Task Force is calling for a full investigation into the Baltimore County Police killing of Korryn Gaines and the wounding of her child. Ms. Grimes is the 647th Black person to be killed by law enforcement across the nation this year. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the loved…
WASHINGTON, DC— Many Voices, a Black church movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) justice, has launched a first-of-its-kind video campaign in partnership with Morgan State University (MSU), to increase awareness about LGBTQ life on historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses, and the ways in which it is shaped by the Black Church…
If current HIV diagnoses rates persist, about 1 in 2 black men who have sex with men (MSM) and 1 in 4 Latino MSM in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV during their lifetime, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study, presented…
