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THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW: CHICAGO'S DARLINGS [S1 EP1]
THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW
SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: CHICAGO'S DARLINGS
In this episode, we visit Chicago’s inspiring Black Queers. From LGBTQ+ news headlines to the narrative feature that takes a closer look at what makes Nobody’s Darling a unique experience as the second Black Queer, woman-owned bar in the United States including an interview with Black lesbian pioneers and Chicago LGBT Hall of Famers, Pat McCombs and Vera Washington who are critical to lesbian bar history in Chicago and fought racist carding in the 1970s. They also created Executive Sweet which began as a Lesbian-only “traveling club” (bar takeover/pop-up bar event).
Host/Audio Editor: Jameela Hammond
Videographer/Video Editor: Brooke Coleman
Video: https://youtu.be/WxSID0vezlA
Follow @theblackcatalyst for more information.
YouTube.com/JAMPACKED
ABOUT:
THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW is an audio/video podcast show focusing on inspiring Black Queer stories discussing identity, coming out, navigating through microaggressions/discrimination, LGBTQ+ community, safe space, and more.
Black Queer folx have been the changemakers, but their stories don’t always receive front-page coverage. George Floyd’s death united people to stand for racial justice and LGBTQ rights throughout the world. Chanting — Black Lives Matter led to the rallying cry that— All Black Lives Matter. It was important for the Black community to reconcile – at long last – the way it has ignored the three layers of marginalization that its Queer folx experience because anti-Black racism couldn’t be dismantled without also dismantling homophobia, transphobia, etc. Black LGBTQ leaders have been at the forefront of change, including Alicia Garza and DeRay Mckesson. The Gay Liberation Day march that turned into the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York was spearheaded by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Queer people of color and trans activists. Bayard Rustin, was a Black gay civil rights activist and mastermind of the Civil Rights Movement's major campaigns, such as the March on Washington. Rustin was also an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s and ‘60s. As the documentary The Same Difference shows, BIPOC LGBTQ+ in relation to White LGBTQ+ are very different in representation and their cultural differences. Now, the first Black (Queer) woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing, Lena Waithe, has been instrumental in pushing Hollywood for more Black Queer representation.
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SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: CHICAGO'S DARLINGS
In this episode, we visit Chicago’s inspiring Black Queers. From LGBTQ+ news headlines to the narrative feature that takes a closer look at what makes Nobody’s Darling a unique experience as the second Black Queer, woman-owned bar in the United States including an interview with Black lesbian pioneers and Chicago LGBT Hall of Famers, Pat McCombs and Vera Washington who are critical to lesbian bar history in Chicago and fought racist carding in the 1970s. They also created Executive Sweet which began as a Lesbian-only “traveling club” (bar takeover/pop-up bar event).
Host/Audio Editor: Jameela Hammond
Videographer/Video Editor: Brooke Coleman
Video: https://youtu.be/WxSID0vezlA
Follow @theblackcatalyst for more information.
YouTube.com/JAMPACKED
ABOUT:
THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW is an audio/video podcast show focusing on inspiring Black Queer stories discussing identity, coming out, navigating through microaggressions/discrimination, LGBTQ+ community, safe space, and more.
Black Queer folx have been the changemakers, but their stories don’t always receive front-page coverage. George Floyd’s death united people to stand for racial justice and LGBTQ rights throughout the world. Chanting — Black Lives Matter led to the rallying cry that— All Black Lives Matter. It was important for the Black community to reconcile – at long last – the way it has ignored the three layers of marginalization that its Queer folx experience because anti-Black racism couldn’t be dismantled without also dismantling homophobia, transphobia, etc. Black LGBTQ leaders have been at the forefront of change, including Alicia Garza and DeRay Mckesson. The Gay Liberation Day march that turned into the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York was spearheaded by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Queer people of color and trans activists. Bayard Rustin, was a Black gay civil rights activist and mastermind of the Civil Rights Movement's major campaigns, such as the March on Washington. Rustin was also an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s and ‘60s. As the documentary The Same Difference shows, BIPOC LGBTQ+ in relation to White LGBTQ+ are very different in representation and their cultural differences. Now, the first Black (Queer) woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing, Lena Waithe, has been instrumental in pushing Hollywood for more Black Queer representation.