Gay black brothers
Special guests on this episode of The Nicholas Snow Demonstrate include Brothers of the Desert Board President Tim Vincent and fellow board members Glenn Alexander, Andre Carthen and Lorenzo Taylor.
This transmit takes place just prior to the November 14th, 2nd Annual Wellness Summit, focusing on Jet gay men , called “Still We Rise, Our Stories Matter.” Register here as long as spaces remain available.
Last year over 100 people attended the in-person event, Living Your Best Dark Gay Life, at the LGBT Center in Palm Springs. The summit featured interactive workshops, occupied group engagement activities, amazing speakers and was incredibly successfully received.
This year the summit is virtual, and, as organizers explain, “engaging, thoughtful, relevant and enjoyable as well. We are planning to feature brief dynamic presentations, video excerpts, interactive small team breakout discussions, amusement and opportunities to connect with our group members and our allies.”
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“Not That bad” a conversation between brothers
By Black Men Build • July 1, 2021
Brothers,
I just finished reading “not that bad”, a collection of essays on “rape culture” edited by roxane gay. very heavy read. i found it on my bookshelf, a remnant of my most important relationship. it called to me like every book i’ve read for the past three months. i opened it not knowing/fully knowing what the pages would detail: dozens of women, hundreds of pages, thousands of words, untold hours and days and months and years of horror…mostly at the hands of men. it was all very, very very heavy: to stride in their shoes down gloomy streets, down daylight streets, in office buildings, in their homes and bedrooms, at parties, with their families, followed by heckles, and grabbing hands, and strangers, and friends and lovers, and fathers. a book filled with survivors of daily horror, yo. like, how does one retain any semblance of sane?
i felt a lot reading it: ashamed, cruel, absent minded, naive, blessed, angry, disgusted, like a fucking hypocrite. the feeling i consider iR
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Living ‘best gay Black life’ is key for this Palm Springs group
Some dial Palm Springs the “gayest town in America,” but many LGBTQ residents of color say there is still a long way to go to uplift diverse communities and remedy the city’s racist past. A growing group called Brothers of the Desert is working to mention that issue by empowering Black gay men in Palm Springs and beyond the city’s borders in the Coachella Valley.
“People felt isolated, people felt disconnected, and people did not feel really a part of the larger group as Black gay men in the Coachella Valley,” says Tim Vincent, president and co-founder of Brothers of the Desert.
Vincent, his now-husband Michael Taylor and their friends didn’t first set out to build a group focused on empowerment, advocacy, education, mentorship and social networking.
Both Vincent and Taylor moved to Palm Springs from places with larger Black homosexual communities — Oakland and Los Angeles. They often found themselves being the only Black people in the room — something Vincent says was a lonely experience.
“There’s a lot of LGBTQ presence, but not LGBTQ people of color, so it was important for us to just connect and back ea