Browsing: homophobia

       Thais-Williams, a lesbian, opened Jewel’s Catch One in the early 1970s because she saw that Black LGBTQ+ people in L.A. needed a space of their own. She had previously run a mixed club, where gay and straight Blacks and whites partied together. “It was kind of a miracle, really,” she once said.

Read any report on HIV in Black America, attend any HIV conference or look up at an HIV prevention billboard and it’s clear who is most impacted by this epidemic in the U.S.