Comments on: It's Black History Month! Here's Five Of My Favorite LGBTQ Black Women

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:05:15 +0000

i just read that quote from audre lourde a few days ago but now i can’t remember where. ahhh. in other news: tracy chapman!

By: Zawadi

Zawadi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:39:31 +0000

COSIGN re Tracy Come-back!!!

By: Zawadi

Zawadi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:37:23 +0000

I love it! Yes, you can ride in my shotgun too . My car’s all the way in Nairobi, Kenya, but your seat is waiting.

By: Dan Nash

Dan Nash — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:04:08 +0000

I am happy to see Audre Lorde referenced a voice for the all to often ignored and shunned community within the community. My favorite Lorde qoute which is so easily applied to so many regardless of race or gender is “[r]acism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside [ourselves] and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices,” brilliant, dignified, and honest.

By: LezGeek

LezGeek — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:02:47 +0000

This article is awesome! Also I love Fast Car so so much. I appreciate black history, despite my utter whiteness, because it’s nice to be reminded that not everyone in history was a cis, white male

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:30:06 +0000

1) Can we please find Tracy Chapman and get her back into performing so music? I mean… I just miss her so much. “At This Point in My Life”…”Give Me One Reason”…”Promise”…”Tell It Like It Is”…okay. I’m going to stop now before I start singing out loud.

2) I told my friends I wanted to be the gay Wanda Sykes before she came out. So…you know she totally stole my thunder. But I’m okay with that because the skit she has about pretending to kidnap her children away from her wife in a baby store and the one about the removable vagina are gold.

By: Juliana

Juliana — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:02:44 +0000

Hello! girls!
i from Brazil!! i liked this history!!
sorry my english!!
thank´s!

By: Ace

Ace — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:02:19 +0000

I second that, love the effort but what about Angela Davis.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:38:20 +0000

Yes!!

By: bra

bra — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:46:08 +0000

Happy Black History month!!!

When I was younger and attending a majority white high school this month always made me feel on edge because there was this defensive silence with my classmates when we heard/read stories about African-Americans being bold and beautiful in the face of adversity. I am older and don’t feel that edge if anything when the mood strikes me I make this a 365 thing including with the intersection of race and gender to boot!

I love reading about Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and James Baldwin, the music, the culture, how it is seen and apporiated in other countries, it interesting. I watched Paris is Burning and granted the making of it could be seen as problematic watching the drag ball culture was serious, excutive realnesssssssssss. It one was the first Black and Latino LBGT documentry I have seen and it changed my life.

Thanks Carmen for this post it makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

By: Eje

Eje — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:22:29 +0000

Thank you.

By: Megaera

Megaera — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:02:00 +0000

Yep. I remember listening to Fast Car in the late 80s, too. I thought it was 88 or 89. Loved it. Love it still.

I also remember wondering if Tracy Chapman was a lesbian around then, because of a track on that album that had the lyric, ‘This love no man can shake’ (For my Lover). Then I thought I was reading too much into it…