02/03/2024
First of all, Happy Black History Month, where Blaque/OUT Magazine celebrates the Black Q***r History we are built on and the folks making Black Q***r History today and TOMORROW!
In our February issue, we also celebrate the 4th Coverversary of our friends at Next Generation Men Of Transition. Four years ago, the gentlemen of NGMT led by Brittan Hardgers were featured as the 1st ever All Black & Brown Trans Masc organization on a national publication cover. The Empty Closet, which was at the time, the longest continuously published LGBTQ+ publication in the nation, was under the leadership of its first Black Editor, Tamara Leigh. It had been her mission and vision to ensure that more diversity was reflected in the EC pages and so her very first cover depicted Black & Brown Trans Feminine women in February of 2019. To celebrate the anniversary of that 1st cover, which marked a change for the EC as well as the agency that produced it, Leigh invited NGMT to be the February 2020 cover as a symbol of Black Q***r HIstory for Black History Month.
Tamara went on to create Blaque/OUT Magazine later that year and this month, we celebrate Black History Month, the 40th issue of Blaque/OUT Magazine, the evolution of to a national organization and its founder, Brittan Hardgers who is now the Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement at . Read about some of the NGMT members and take a look at the collection of shots from their amazing photoshoot with Davis in Rochester, New York.
But BEFORE YOU LEAVE, make sure you watch the AMAZING interview with of POSE, (we LOVE him here at Blaque/OUT!!) the 1st in a series of articles about our experience at Creating Change Conference in NOLA last month, our recognition of Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on the 7th and all of the Blaque/OUT columns and columnists that you LUV and wait for each & every month.
See all that and more in the full issue of the February 2024 Blaque/OUT Magazine: https://issuu.com/blaqueoutmag/docs/blaqueout_magazine_feb_2024_1_?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ