Lesbian reporter Karen Ocamb has an interesting piece up at Bilerico.com called "Tavis Smiley's Big Day Without Gays" where she asks where were the Black LGBT people at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union conference held at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week? So this year's SOTBU promot...

The 2009 edition of FUSION: The LGBT People of Color Film Festival will be held March 6-7 (next weekend) in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. MadProfessah has been looking forward to the next FUSION film festival since I reviewed the 5th edition in December 2007. Tickets are still available onli...

from blacklightonline: E. Lynn Harris says he no longer does "readings" of his novels. He leaves that up to the reader. Instead, he talked about where the idea came from for the plot of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Pam Spaulding, the founder and main creative force behind Pam's House Blend is on the cover of today's Washington Post Style section in an article titled "Gay Bloggers' Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Political Influence." I met Pam at the LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Conference in Washingto...

As I watched him prepare to shoot up on the bathroom floor, I felt a mix of fear, horror, fascination and arousal. He didn’t tie that rubber thingy around his arm like I’d seen Diana Ross do in Lady... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]...

For the third consecutive Friday, Wanda Sykes is the topic of our Celebrity Friday at MadProfessah.com. This picture was taken with the openly lesbian comedienne at the Marriage Equality Now Rally in Sacramento on Monday February 16th, 2009....

Wanda Sykes has a profile written by reporter Ari Karpel in the latest Advocate magazine, which is now a monthly. There are some interesting tidbits into the newest members of the Out Celebrity pantheon which include Ellen Degeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, T.R. Knight, Rosie O'Donnell and Sir Ian McKe...

There will be an interesting event held before the NAACP Image Awards next week highlighting the under-representation of Black LGBT images in the media. Cue the press release: On the eve of the 40th NAACP Image Awards, the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Ag...

GetToKnowUsFirst.org is a website devoted to educating the public about the actual lives of LGBT people in California. They tried to air one of the above public service announcements during KABC's coverage of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on Tuesday and were rebuffed. To let ABC know how ...

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute released a new study of Proposition 8 voting data (pdf) which shows that the number of Black people who voted for Prop 8 is probably closer to 57-59%, not the 70% originally reported. The Barbara Jordan/Bayard Rustin Coalition, released the fo...