#SayHerName Blessing Olusegu! Where is the outcry, story and attention? Police probe after this beautiful Black Woman, a London student, 21, was found dead on Sussex beach #heartbroking 💔
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🖤Feeling moved and emotional seeing myself in Magazine again, who would have thought - my inner child, this little dark-skinned British born African girl who was bullied and told was ugly, well well well look at me now - I am all about Black Queer Joy and fighting… Show more
OMG just received official notification from Lizzo’s management that she wants me to be in her next video which is about Big Black Women around the world making a difference. I’m screaming, crying & feeling on top of the world #SocialJustice #BodyPositive #BlackLivesMatter
Fantastic News: Botswana has decriminalised homosexuality. Love and solidarity to those on the grounds that made this happen! ✊🏾
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Botswana has decriminalised homosexuality!! Enormous congratulations to @legabiboadvo and the tireless LGBT+ campaigners! Brilliant news to hear and a massive win for love and equality in the continent 
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This Black African lesbian warrior woman mother is in the September issue of alongside incredible changemakers. The little dark-skinned Black girl in me is really emotional jumping for joy. I can't remember seeing women like me in magazines like Vogue
NEWS: I’m officially a Doctor.
To receive this recognition,surrounded by my family and friends, means more than words can describe. To receive this recognition in front of my mother and my daughter is honestly too difficult for me to quantify. I’ve cried so many tears of joy!
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Black LGBTQIA+ people led the fight for equality. As Pride can’t go ahead this year, it’s more important than ever to donate to @ukblackpride ukblackpride.org.uk/ukbp-donate #artistsforblacklives
The moment when mentions calls me on stage at the #WorldPride opening ceremony to acknowledge me as one of the Grand Marshall 2019, she gives the best hugs and the love was flowing. All I’m going to say is this made my whole life ✊🏾🏳️🌈♥️
Thank you to for this incredible interview and acknowledgement. It's not often we see Queer Black women and LGBTQ Human Rights on front covers of our newspapers. I am humbled, I really am and I’m also excited to start work at charity soon.
Today: Happy UK Black Pride ~ Celebrating 15 years, thank you to everybody who has been part of building and growing over the years #PastAndPresent. Join us today at 12 to celebrate the very first online black pride, there’s so much talent ukblackpride.org.uk 💜
Toni Morrison taught us to ask the question “what can i do from where I am?” everyone can carve out something to contribute. everyone can scrutinise the seat in which they sit + use it as a source for further action. (Thank you ) I will not be silent about the injustice
OMG what a night at the BAFTAS, I was there as part of the ‘Times Up’ movement to raise awareness of Sexism, Sexual Violence, Harassment, Assault & Discrimination. Thank you to @MaraiLarasi my Sister for life and to Andrea Riseborough an actress with so much fight in her #TimesUp
My daughter & I stand up & speak out, we stand for Equality Freedom & Justice #POC #LGBT #Allies #ComeOutForLGBT
Get to know her name as well as speaking of Marsha P.Johnson: Storme DeLarverie in 1994, lesbian, woman of colour who was a key and an instrumental figurehead in the Stonewall Riots also advocating for change. 🤎🏳️🌈✊🏾💕
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Storme DeLarverie in 1994, lesbian, woman of colour is believed to have thrown the 1st punch, in defence of police violence, at the Stonewall Riots-an event that lead to the 1st #Pride march. “She walked the streets of Manhattan like a gay superhero,” Photo by Michelle V. Agins
It’s official, I’ve finally started as Executive Director where I have an awesome team, a fantastic Board of Trustees and amazing activists & allies around the world who I’ll be working alongside to fight for international LGBT+ human rights
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Please join us in welcoming the wonderful @MsLadyPhyll for her first day as Executive Director!
We couldn't imagine a better person to lead us forward in our fight for international LGBT+ human rights. Watch this space! 
We couldn't imagine a better person to lead us forward in our fight for international LGBT+ human rights. Watch this space! 
Throughout my career, there have been few moments that have required –and resulted in – such wholesale solidarity as the LGBT+ community rising up in defence of our trans siblings. Proud to lead organisations that take a stand & speak truth to power. Trans rights are human rights
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Kaleidoscope Trust stands in solidarity with our trans siblings in the UK and around the world. As such, we are withdrawing our support of #SafetoBeMe2022.
The UK Government must ensure that *all* LGBT+ people in the UK are free from violence, discrimination and persecution.
We often hear people talk about countries across the world where it’s illegal to be gay – but what’s often missing from the conversation is the role Britain played in creating those laws.
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Happy Black Pride! We are set to make History, Herstory & TheirStory today as we set our stage. Keep the noise up at #UKBlackPride, Sun 8 July. It’s about Love, Unity, Respect, Inclusion and everyone bringing their best selves. bit.ly/UKBPJuly8
#shadesofthediaspora 🏳️🌈
Proud to be Ghanaian, Proud to be LGBTQ and I most definitely stand in solidarity with my Ghanaian Community & Siblings back home! 🇬🇭🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💜✊🏾🌎❤️
#GhanaianQueerLivesMatter #AfricanAndProud #Community #Ghana #LGBTQIA #KillTheBill
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day: Just thought I’d showcase a few amazing black lesbians in the UK that you may not see in every day publications. 🤎#LesbianVisibilityDay #BlackWomen #Lesbians See the wonderful images here ➡️ facebook.com/1274020414/pos
“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.” Audre Lorde ✊🏾
. #PrideIsAProtest #WhenWeRise UKBLACKPRIDE Sunday 7th July at Haggerston Park #PrideMoments
Thank you @imaanlgbtqi and #Solidarity ♥️🏳️🌈✊🏾
Proud to still be standing 15 years after being told to "f-off" for wanting to create #UKBLACKPRIDE ✊🏾Celebrating our 15th anniversary & working with the team to pull together this digital celebration on Sunday
Watch UK Black Pride at ukblackpride.org.uk
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📣 I am really excited to announce my appointment to Independent Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Advisory Council, the council will support the business as it continues to broaden its focus across wider intersections of D&I including LGBTQ+ inclusion and social mobility.… Show more
Just over a month ago, I wrote a letter in response to the closure of Ghana’s LGBTQIA+ Centre in Accra for British Vogue. The situation for queer Ghanaians has continued to deteriorate, and it’s imperative that the global LGBTQ community maintains momentum in our support.
‘AS A LESBIAN, I AM MORE TRUE TO MY CULTURE THAN THE HOMOPHOBES WHO LEARNED TO HATE FROM A FOREIGN BOOK’ Brandy Kiki #IAmStillAfrican ✊🏾🏳️🌈
📣I could not be at the protest today however you I’ll see team members at Downing Street. I’m sending solidarity, love and support to all in attendance and of course my Trans siblings! #BanConversionTherapy #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #Solidarity
Met Diane Abbot & we had such brilliant conversation about the world as we see it today, black women & racism, Grenfell, sexism & misogyny, poverty & class and a little giggle about A.Nother. Don't underestimate what this woman has had to go through and she's still standing!
Ok today today today let's continue to celebrate who we are, be inclusive & have fun at w/Pride in the Park at Vauxhall Gdns🌟
Many emotions about being 15 years, it’s not been easy. We’ll be hosting a day of celebrations live streamed, including performances, live DJ sessions & speakers; alongside a series of virtual rooms hosted by our partners within the community ukblackpride.org.uk
Lady Phyll loves her some #Whoopi showed me so much love at #WorldPride Opening Ceremony #Stonewall50 #LGBTQI ✊🏾🏳️🌈♥️
You’re allowed to date yourself, fancy yourself, have selfie moments of yourself, talk to yourself about yourself and love yourself without apology. I thought I would share this because I am really feeling myself🤎💕🤎 #AgeingWell #African #Melanin #Queerness #Queening #LovingMe
Black History Month is about acknowledging the icons and titans who inspire us to keep moving forward, I salute our past, work in the present & aim to build a better future. Thank you for spotlighting me & others #Honoured
Yesterday was a really tough day for me, however, I’m not going to let yesterday take up my today. Just reminding myself to take care of me, be patient with me and acknowledge I will always be me even when people try and take my kindness for weakness. Have a good day and please… Show more
Wow thank you so much for the support for this cover means so much to me! When we don’t see ourselves on front covers and in mainstream media, we feel erased, hopefully this shows Black/Brown LGBTQ+ people that we must occupy, resist, celebrate & be our best selves!
Remembering my cover shoot. I just love this picture of sheer African happiness, being proud and unapologetically black, a lesbian woman, feeling my ancestors as they speak/work through me on a daily basis! ✊🏾🏳️🌈 🖤💕Photo by Styled by
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This is one to watch - in just two minutes this former Met Police chief superintendent makes use of so many racist stereotypes of Black communities and crime it must be a new record
Shocking, deplorable stuff
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PROUD: To anyone who ever wrote me off, ignored me, talked ill of me, purposely tried to sabotage, those that oppressed & discriminated, I just want to say it’s okay as I’m doing great, I humbly accept my honorary doctorate and I wish you well🤍🤍 #BlackQueerWomen #Life
This is heartbreaking 💔We say #RestInPower #RIPReese I oppose all forms of bullying, harassment, discrimination and hate!
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When a man is confident & secure enough to openly love a trans woman; this is the bullying and harassment he gets. When trans attracted men kill us; it’s out of fear that this will happen to them if they are outed. Reese didn’t kill his girlfriend; he killed himself instead. #RIP
SO thrilled to finally be able to announce this!
The ultimate goal of Global Black Pride is to centre, uplift and celebrate LGBTQ Black people and the cultures and issues that are important to us all.
The past couple of weeks have been difficult and as a proud African Ghanaian Queer women, I am encouraging all Ghanaian's to live up to our historical and cultural integrity. All LGBTQ+ people deserve safety, love and a life free from violence. #GhanaSupportsEquality
I never get tired of watching Jane Elliott and the work she has done as an anti racist over the years. Stand up. Stand up for us. The onus is not on the oppressed to alleviate your guilt or to demonstrate your path towards being a better ally. Stand up.
I have so many emotions right now so I want to say a massive thank you for making 2019 our biggest event yet. I saw over 10,000 people gathered in Haggerston Park & my amazing team who make it all happen. #WhenWeRise #ByUsAndForUs
Word for today: “If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you...” ♥️
Please take time with yourself, be patient and be good to you! ♥️
My heart is going to burst with love and glitter. Meet Mike (72yrs) & Phil (76yrs) who met 49 years ago. Love is Love and I’m in love with these two! ♥️♥️♥️ #LGBTQ #EverydayMotivation #BlackGayMen #LivingTheirLives
Thank you ✊🏾🏳️🌈💕
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Mike, 72, and Phil, 76, met in church 49 years ago.
“I wore my hot red pants,” Mike, left, said. Then he laughed. Mischievously. “They worked every time.”
“They did,” Phil said. “And I’m glad I was there to calm you down.”
Michael + Phillip, Detroit, MI, 7/11/19
'We wanted people to see we exist': the photographer who recorded lesbian life in the 70s ❤️
Attended the 2nd London Protest organised by at Ghana Embassy due to the far-reaching anti-LGBTQ bill. It was good to see many people & thank you for allowing me to lead a moment of silence for our siblings 🇬🇭🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter #KillTheBill #Solidarity
Absolutely loving this painting of me by the wonderful ‘NOW’ to find a special place in my house for it, thank so much you beautiful talented woman ❤️❤️❤️
She is the wife of my sister-friend 🤍
My 1st interview in 2021 with , it is not often I get personal but we must act & speak about race, class, education, trans-rights, enslavement, empire, identities, communities, Blackness, LGBTQ, life’s lessons & more theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
My heart breaks for #CandiceBrathwaite and dark-skinned Black women who are not only erased, but used and then discarded. Cast aside. Rejected. Ignored. This happens every single day of our lives and I’m tired. We are tired. Rochelle, stand by your sisters and do the right thing.
This was empowering but now the real talk is how we get intersectional and hear all women’s voices, this is not just for the few, it’s about the many! Thank you for asking me to speak #Solidarity twitter.com/womensmarchlon
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📣 Important Announcement: As you all know, organising is a big effort, we are 18 years old this year and we each decision made has our community’s safety in mind. Some of those decisions are small, some of them are big — they’re each important. We’ve made a big… Show more
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Donald Trump is guilty of inflaming racial tensions amid violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia independent.co.uk/news/world/ame
So proud of the team and community for coming together for this amazing video! We are on countdown until we descend on Haggerston Park for UK Black Pride Sunday 7 July 2019 #BlackAndBrownBodies #QTIPOC #PeopleOverProfit #PrideIsPolitical #Allies #Family #Love✊🏾🏳️🌈
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Black Woman to Black Woman; she felt me, she knew me, she held me, she understood the pain within me, she laughed with me, she acknowledged me, she shared her knowledge with me, told me to keep going because she is with me, she was my ‘Self-Care’ in that moment
Made my flight, heading to New York for World Pride 2019 as I’m going to be a Grand Marshall: I was special and picked out for extra security check but I’m to excited to be frustrated. Bye London - Hello NYC ♥️🏳️🌈✊🏾 #LGBTIQ #Stonewall50
Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates pioneering Black LGBTQ+ rights activist, Marsha P. Johnson. on August 24th, 1945. Her middle initial—“P.”—allegedly stood for her response to those who questioned her gender: “Pay It No Mind.” Thank you
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Picked up my copy of Time Out at the station as I was en route to work! Thank you Londoners & TimeOut for listing my name among so many inspirational women. This has really put a pep-in-my-step! I’m honoured 🖤❤️🖤 #SomeonesHeroine #RecognisingWomen #BeingVisibleAndActive
The power of Olive Morris. Olive a community activist in South London in the 1970s, who died of cancer aged 27 in 1979. Organising in the black community & feminist activism, she left behind an extraordinary legacy of local activism.
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I'm absolutely over the moon and honoured to have won the European Diversity Awards for 'Campaigner of the Year'. This award is for all who have paved the way for me to be able to amplify my voice and not be afraid to stand up & be counted
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Newsflash: UK Black Pride 2019 Sunday 7th July at Haggerston Park. A safe space where we celebrate our best selves! You cannot afford to miss the excitement which continues to put people at the heart of our communities #LGBTQI #POC #BAME 🏳️🌈✊🏾bit.ly/UKBP2019
Today: Proud that is supporting the first ever #ReclaimPride march in London on 24 July. It will be a celebration & a protest. If you are coming alone and want to march with us, come join, there is space for us all #PrideIsAProtest #PridesShouldBeInclusive #LGBTQIA+
In celebration of LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK. Proud to be an African Black Lesbian! It was pure joy to be photographed for ‘LEGENDS’ series! I was certainly feeling myself 💖
📸 #ZoeLawLondon #LesbianVisibilityWeek
It was so beautiful meeting this amazing human being We talked about UK Black Pride, , racism, transphobia and just showed love to one another ♥️✊🏾🏳️🌈
#BeautifulMoments
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Proud of my friends and fellow Ghanaian Sisters - Wedding photos of African lesbians in traditional Ghanaian cloth cause uproar - Face2Face Africa. Ghana what are you worried about poverty or LGBT+🏳️🌈 face2faceafrica.com/article/weddin
I'm really very honoured to be one of the faces of #ProudNation, a project led by the LGBTQ+ community that challenges the stereotypes and lack of diversity in advertising through a representative photographic series.
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It was an honour & privilege to participate in Montego Bay Pride. Through the hate & name calling by the clergy as they see us as an abomination, I thank our brave & fearless Jamaican siblings, who know the struggle is real but yet still celebrate with pride! Solidarity & one♥️
#UKBP2018: Thank you to all our volunteers, stallholders, performers/speakers, photographers, media, sponsor, attendees & of course the Team for making this years event special by centring black and brown LGBTQ+ people at the heart of our community #FeelingEmotional
Something to make you giggle: This is definitely how my mother would behave 😂😂😂
Please stay safe & stay home 🤎
TW for Black Womxn: I’ve been putting on a brave face whilst dealing with subtle forms of racism wrapped in smiles, micro-aggressions & snipes to make me feel small, trying to erase my voice and undo or claim my work, the misogyny/misogynoir is real in this patriarchal world.
OMG I’m super honoured to be among this list of trailblazing women, I can’t believe this, there are many women who have come before & allowed me to create & carve out space. WoW 9 Women Who Changed The World For LGBTQ+ People
refinery29.com/en-ca/lgbtq-ac
Driving with the roof off and just enjoying life. The beach was so nice yesterday, the sun kissed my skin and all I can think about is how much I needed this 🤎🤎🤎 #FeelingMyself #SelfCare #ByTheCoast #NoMakeUp
This week I want all cisgender allies to step up and ask themselves: 'am I doing enough?'
#TransWeekOfVisibility #Trans #TDoR #BlackTransLivesMatter
Feeling Myself ~ cute in pink! 💗
Photo taken by the fabulous Dwayne at the Manor House of Dwayne & Simon Black #ThankYou #SelfCare #LovingMe #ReallyCute #Queening
I cannot express how immensely proud I feel as a Black African Lesbian Woman with a story to tell, this is cover is for people who don’t see images like this often enough or at all in the… instagram.com/p/BkVfODuhjTj/
Meet ‘BeBé BlackPride Opoku-Gyimah’ you can call her BeBé for short. She is a new addition to my family. If you wish to get her anything, she accepts things that bling as she’s a little bougie 🤎🌈🤩 And my timeline will not be filled with puppy pics 🙈 #PuppyLove #BlackPugs
This trip was fantastic, as a single mother there were many times I couldn’t afford or do for my child but we are rich in culture, heritage, family-love so now we just keep on reaching for the stars and enjoying every minute! #BlackGirlMagic #HolidayMoments #MotherAndDaughter♥️🇱🇨
Pride is a year-long commitment, not just a month-long celebration. As June comes to an end, we move on to our next commemoration: the annual recession of interest in our global community.
TW: Difficult to watch it’s the UK. So whilst this is happening 100’s of people are breaking social distancing rule in Soho and police say nothing but if #BLM have a march or are stopped and searched, the policing over our bodies is completely different #BlackLivesMatter #Angry
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Solidarity to and other Black & PoC Queer people❤️ The events of the last few days have revealed to anyone paying attention that Pride in London’s problems run deep. ‘Change is not easy, but one must have a desire to change in the first place’ bit.ly/3r6jjZ8
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We deserve to be free from a life of violence. Join for a digital protest Wednesday at 6pm GMT. Hashtag #GhanaGetsBetter to join the conversation. Observe the protocols👇🏿to protect your safety
#TogetherWeBuild
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
#GhanaSupportsEquality
Ghana Pastor, Preacher, Priest: Please let my LGBTQI people survive, thrive, live, laugh and live. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired, we are your daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins - we are human beings that deserve respect! I stand with ✊🏾
Really again BBC 🤔.... not all Black Women look alike, we shouldn’t have to keep receiving this level of disrespect, it’s not on! #FixUp
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.@BBCNews @BBCPolitics I love my sister @MarshadeCordova but we are two different people. Marsha is amazing and deserves to be called by her own name. Diversity in the workplace matters it also helps to avoid making simple mistakes like this.
Happy Birthday to me, it’s all about until it’s not about me!! So grateful to see another year, have good health, be able to travel and to have received the most beautiful messages of love and kindness! Thank you ♥️♥️♥️
#BirthdayMoments #SomewhereHot #LovingMyself #AnotherYear
Not apologising for showing off my R&R (rest & relaxation) moments because when I start my new job next month it’s going to be full on! #SelfLoving #NoApology
Today we release our We Will Be Heard Survey results, our first report of its kind.
