I am a black gay man from the South. I came of age in the ’90s and early 2000s. Like...
His dick was a lethal weapon, at least according to Missouri state law. But before Michael Johnson aka “Tiger Mandingo”...
A few weeks back I was co-hosting a staged reading of the Tarell Alvin McCraney play, "Choir Boy," and I...
Atlanta is the city of perfect black gay men, or rather the illusion of perfection. Perfect bodies. Perfect jobs. Perfect...
Every black gay man I know, around my age at least, has been significantly impacted by the novels of E....
For some reason, people are surprised when I come out as an introvert. I suppose my work doesn’t lend itself...
Every year young black gay men, and some not so young, make their way to Atlanta for adventure, for romance...
This is how I often begin the story: The Deeper Love Project was founded in 1997 at AID Atlanta by...
When I was about 19 or 20 and starting coming out publicly, or rather politically, I began to doubt the...
We say “coming out” even still—well, some of us do—to describe the naming of one’s sexual identity, publicly, outside...
There are obviously two ways to interpret the word “critical.” One denotes decisive importance, according to some dictionary I found on the...