For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Junauda Petrus is a poet, performance artist, filmmaker, and writer. She's also a co-founder of the group Free Black Dirt. #lgbtqauthors #lgbtqvoices #blackauthors #blackvoices #pocvoices
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. American poet and writer Camonghne Felix was appointed as speech writer to Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2025, the first black woman and the youngest person appointed that position. #lgbtqvoices #lgbtq #lgbtqauthors #blsckvoices #blackauthors #pocvoices
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Faylita Hicks is a performance artist, photographer, poet, and writer. She's had her poetry and essays have appeared in a number of magazines and publications. #lgbtqvoices #lgbtq #lgbtqauthors #blsckvoices #blackauthors #pocvoices
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. June Jordan was a poet, essayist, teacher, and activist who self-identitied as bisexual. In her work, she advocated for and used Black English, and frequently explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation. She was inducted into the Stonewall National Monument in 2019. #lgbtqvoices #blackvoices #pocvoices #lgbtq #lgbtqauthors #blackauthors #pocauthors #blackenglish
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. In addition to being a novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet James Baldwin was a social and political activist. #lgbtqauthors #lgbtq #lgbt #blackauthors #blackvoices #lgbtqvoices #pocvoices
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Writer and playwrite Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American woman to have one of her plays performed on Broadway. #lgbtqvoices #blackauthors #lgbtqauthors #blackvoices #pocauthors #pocvoices #playwrite #play
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Melvin Dixon was a professor of literature, poet, author, and translator. His work has received multiple literary awards. #lgbtqvoices #lgbtqauthors #pocvoices #blackvoices #blackauthors #poet
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Mia McKenzie is a feminist, activist, author, and performance artist. Her work appears regularly in the Kenyon Review, and her first novel received a Lambda Literary Award. #lgbtqvoices #lgbt #lgbtq #blackvoices #pocvoices #blackauthor #lgbtqauthor
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. J. Made III is a black, trans, queer author, performer, poet, and educator. He is the founder of awQward, and is currently working on a new book due to come out later this year. #lgbt #lgbtq #transgender #lgbtqvoices #pocvoices #blackvoices
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Canadian writer and professor Dionne Brand is especially well known for her poetry. She has earned multiple awards and honors, including being Toronto's third Poet Laureate from 2009-2012. #lgbtqvoices #lgbtq #lgbt #poetry #blackvoices #pocvoices
