Lifting the Veil on Black Gay Men and Depression
“because it's not a party or about sex, although those may be the very root causes of depression, the topic in of itself in the Black community is one of those taboo topics that most would rather avoid.”
NO DRAMA! Immigrants working together
"Another member of the group who was moved to tears shared that he felt so inspired by the obvious success of the event that he felt strengthened and emboldened to declare his sexual orientation, “come out of the closet.” And, another member shared that for him, coming from a country steeped in homophobia, participating in this event was an opportunity for him to be himself, be free and be creative."
Breaking the silence of depression in the Black gay community AntoineSpeaks
“I still find there’s a strong stigma to African Americans and therapy, particularly for brothers. Tell someone you’re seeing a shrink and they just may haul off and hit you with: “Man, you must be crazy.” But I think it’s just the opposite: Sometimes you’d have to be crazy not to seek therapy.”
The rights of a gay person are human rights. AntoineSpeaks
"I am taking a stand for the human rights denied Mark and many like him who have no voice, or whose voices are drowned out in the cacophony of denial. There are many who have fled the country, such as Vermal from Soesdyke, whose story of sexual abuse, taunted, beaten and imprisoned in his home, was turned into a play performed on stages around the U.S., or those who still suffer in silence, forced to conform and dare not speak up."
Positive: Retelling the HIV message AntoineSpeaks
“Positive” explores and examines different sections of society, unconfined to the island, which remain as obstacles to effective dissemination of information, prevention, and treatment of HIV."
Stabroek News - No one is advocating turning the society lawless
Antoine B. Craigwell said: Letter to editor in response to comments to a previously published letter to the editor in Kaieteur News, Feb 26, 2010, on the case before Guyana's High Court on cross-dressing.
"Despite the airs and pretensions with which we have clothed ourselves, and the exploitative and oppressive effects of religion, we should not forget that in the wider scheme of nature, we are still part of the animal kingdom. Many of the detractors have ignored the qualitative contributions gay men and lesbians make to society: they don’t walk around wearing a sign on their foreheads announcing their sexual orientation, instead they go about their tasks or jobs without fanfare."
Cry wolf: Uganda and the anti-homosexuality bill
"To the Christian evangelists, while these laws violated the human rights of their own people, they were sanctioned and capitalizing on the Ugandan penchant for sexualizing all conduct or behavior perceived as inappropriate, sought to pin their hopes of furthering the cause of anti-homosexuality as a violation of morality."
W.A.R Stories: Walter Rodney - a documentary Expressing my view!
"...to produce a piece of work that truly captured who Rodney was, his impact on the people he met, and the patina of a legend that had begun to form about him in life, and which assumed greater meaning with his death."
Status Is Everything
“Status is everything is my brainchild and it is more than the tag line to the organization. It began in my kitchen with my partner and six other friends,” says Gary Paul Wright, executive director, AAOGC.
