So doing that work of oral history is you do your biography work and then you make the ask of, “Hey, I am a stranger to you, but I would like for you to tell me your most intimate stories. It was the most delicious kiss I have ever had, and all our friends cheered whilst they danced around us! To work on an educational, cultural television show with a predominantly African American staff really did change my life socially,” she remarks. A Poet Laureate, her powerful poetry often engages in issues of oppression and liberation, and her essays and speeches (compiled in her book Sister Outsider) offer brilliant critiques of systemic oppression and outlines important methods for resisting it.

Woman Kills Woman for Love of Woman," the headline read, and the story relished the details of the crime: the weeping and moaning of the suspect and another woman at the scene, the broken windows and furniture, "the cold pool of blood.She got her master’s degree from Columbia’s school of journalism, and worked part-time as a stage manager, which helped her dating life. Known also as Lady Phyll, Opoku-Gyimah is the co-founder, trustee and executive director of UK Black Pride, which “promotes unity and co-operation among all Black people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent, as well as their friends and families, who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender.

Finding ways to create such positive representations can be seen as the very project of the film itself. In 1981 they came together to form the Gay Black Group with the aim of creating ‘a supportive environment where black gays and lesbians can meet and share their experiences without fear’.

The GLC initially funded outreach workers, but the abolition of the GLC in 1986 meant that the project had to rely on funding from the London Borough Grants Scheme, donations and membership.

They were one of the first gay couples to be married in California, having served as litigants suing the state for the right to legally marry since 2004. Though positive visibility of queer black women has increased, negative perceptions in the media and law enforcement remain deeply ingrained, and can still have serious consequences.Crazed with gin and a wild unnatural infatuation with another woman" begins a story about a 1926 stabbing in the black-owned New York Age. We want to be able to send someone to the place that gets it right or the movement that does it best.