Black Gay Love Revealed

Last week, gay and lesbian couples celebrated the Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. Yesterday, gays and lesbians celebrated the annual gay pride festivities in New York City and throughout the country.  Today, black gay couples can thank prominent historian Trent Kelly for reminding the public that black gay love has been around for more than a century, through his collection of 146 rare vintage photographs of black male couples from the past 150 years.

According to Kelly:

Historically, the Afro-American gay male and couple has largely been defined by everyone but themselves. Afro-American gay men are ignored into nonexistence in parts of black culture and are basically second class citizens in gay culture. The black church which has historically played a fundamental role in protesting against civil injustices toward its parishioners has been want to deny its gay members their right to live a life free and open without prejudice. Despite public projections of a “rainbow” community living together in harmonious co-habitation, openly active and passive prejudices exist in the larger gay community against gay Afro-Americans.

The vintage photographs are incredible and provide a storyline to a past secret lifestyle that has now come to light. To view Kelly’s full pictorial find,  CLICK HERE.