Houston's Black Queer AF Week promises music, visibility, hope, and joy

Houston's Black Queer AF Week promises music, visibility, hope, and joy

Plenty of Black queer joy will be on display in the coming week in Houston.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Black Queer AF Week, organized by the Normal Anomaly Initiative, will open Saturday in Texas’s largest city and will continue through May 4. It will feature music, dancing, drag, a yacht brunch, and more.This year’s theme is “Visibility,” something more important now than ever…

Black, queer, and built to last, Black Prides defies deletion

At a time when DEI investments are rapidly vanishing across industries and LGBTQ+ rights face mounting attacks, spaces created for and by marginalized communities are not only necessary; they're essential. That's precisely why Black Prides were created: to carve out space where our joy is prioritized, our identities are affirmed, and our communities can gather in resistance, resilience, and love.The Legacy of Black PridesBorn out of exclusion an…