If you are a gay or lesbian of color and are proud to be in your skin, please take the time to read this article below. Otherwise, we understand that you may not even care enough about yourself to make a difference in your life and the lives of your friends of LGBT people of color like you.
We ran into this article from Discreet City and appreciated its message so much that we had to share on our website. Discreet City’s Nick Delmacy wrote a detailed essay recently identifying the reasons and solutions of the lack of financial support within the Black and Latino LGBT communities.
With the growing representation in media and entertainment created by everyday individuals among LGBT people of color including The G-List Society, Discreet City, 3LWTV, Rod 2,0, ADTV, No Shade, Drama Queenz among many others, how supportive financially, and even in viewership, are you and your peers when it comes to media and entertainment highlighting LGBT people of color in comparison to mainstream LGBT and mainstream entertainment and media at-large? Be honest. Your truth is neither good or bad, but it an opportunity for solutions.
Provided below are the quotes that intrigued us to keep reading, and we hope you do the same.
Money. It’s the driving force to everything. Having money can give individuals and organizations a great deal of power and freedom. When you consider the idea of pooling of money from multiple people in a community, this power and freedom is doubled tenfold. What if the black gay community employed this tactic?
