GLAAD Down South Brings Atlanta-Based Advocates, Journalists Together for Annual Event

GLAAD Down South Brings Atlanta-based Advocates, Journalists Together for Annual Event

The second celebration of Black LGBTQ Southerners, stories and storytellers,  GLAAD Down South, brought together journalists and advocates in Atlanta and elevated essential conversations being amplified in local news by Darian Aaron, GLAAD’s Director of Local News: U.S. South.  Coverage of GLAAD Down South’s event on May 16th includes reporting from Rough Draft Atlanta, and [...] The post GLAAD Down South Brings Atlanta-based Advocates, Journali…

THEATER ‘Honeypot’: A poetic journey into the lives of Black gay women

Taking the poetic concept of E. Patrick Johnson’s nonfiction oral history book to even more fantastical heights, D. Soyini Madison’s adaptation of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women has found a nurturing home at Evanston’s Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre.Johnson’s original concept, which imagined a vibrant guide transporting him to the land of Hymen to chronicle the histories of Black lesbians, is further enhanced with music and dance. The…