Letter from DC Black Pride Board of Directors

Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 4:28pm

May 26, 2010 Greetings DC Black Pride Attendees: The DC Black Pride Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the 2010 DC Black Pride: 20 Years Later the Legacy Lives. This year marks the 20th anniversary of DC Black Pride – the first Black Pride event in the United States. In 1991 Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland and Ernest Hopkins founded Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, Inc (DC Black Pride) with 800 hundred people ...[more]

Board of Directors and List of Sponsors

Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:31pm

The 2010 Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, Inc. Board Patricia R. Corbett Jimma Elliott-Stevens Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr. Jhahbriel C. Moore, Sr. Corporate & Community Sponsors Kaiser Permanente Gilead Sciences, Inc. Verizon Wireless International Federation of Black Prides, Inc. Olivia Cruises Whitman Walker Clinic AIDS Healthcare Foundation Mautner Project Us Helping Us Washington ...[more]

Letter from Earl Fowlkes, International Federation of Black Prides Inc.

Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:23pm

May 26, 2010 Greetings, In my capacity as President and CEO of the International Federation of Black Prides Inc., I write to applaud you on 20 years of stellar service to the Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Same Gender Loving Communities in the DC Region and across the nation. Twenty years ago a small group of community activists had the foresight to organize a celebration with a cause at a time when many felt celebration was all but impossible. ...[more]

Singular Sensation

A decade after donning a dress at a softball tournament, Jerry Van Hook has made Shi-Queeta-Lee one of D.C.'s most prominent drag entertainers

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:21pm

''I was gay, but I never thought about putting a dress on,'' laughs Jerry Van Hook, about the first 32 years of his life. Those would be the pre-Shi-Queeta-Lee years. Van Hook only donned a dress some 13 years ago. The star was born, improbably enough, at a drag pageant for a gay softball tournament. At the time, Van Hook played ball with the JR.'s Gamecocks. ''Everyone on the team had a girl name,'' he explains. ''When I joined the ...[more]

Charlotte's Legacy

DC Black Pride remembers the late Charlotte Smallwood with the Welmore Cook Award

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:19pm

This year's DC Black Pride events strive to be the largest yet -- though few would argue that there's one significant element missing: Charlotte Smallwood. ''I will miss that she will not be at the door going into Black Pride, providing the benefit of her immense knowledge of the District to visitors from out of town,'' laments Earl Fowlkes, DC Black Pride board member. Smallwood was a 73-year-old lesbian activist living in Washington. She died of brain cancer on April ...[more]

Festival Vendors

2010 Black Pride: Convention Center, Sunday

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:17pm

Sunday, May 30, 2010 Washington Convention Center801 Mount Vernon Place NW1 to 7 p.m.$15 Afripeba AIDS Health-Care Foundation Capital Area gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Carl Vogel Center CASCADE Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton DC Black Pride Information DC Center DC Coalition DC Office of LGBT Affairs Daryl Wilson Dance Tent Delta Elite Equality Maryland Food & Friends Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance Gay Men's Chorus of WashingtonGLOtv Gilead Sciences Greater Than AIDS GW LGBT Alumni Association Harry ''Tommy'' Thomas, ...[more]

Nightlife Events

Black Pride 2010: Weekend parties for women and men

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:09pm

WOMEN'S PARTIES Thursday, May 27 The District Certified Movement presents Alter EGO at DC Star, 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, May 28 Delta Elite/Ladies Night featuring Lucky as the host, at 3734 10th St. NE, 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. www.deltaelite.net. DJ India/Euphoria DC Events Women's DC Black Pride Weekend featuring Floetry's Songstress Marsha ''Ambrosius'' at Upscale Heritage India in Dupont Circle. 1337 Connecticut Ave. NW, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. $20 (Limited Early ...[more]

PrideScope

Horoscopes for Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 3:04pm

Heavenly Round-Up: If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, has feathers like a duck and sings like Diana Ross, is it still a duck? And what is it wearing? If it's got something sequin pave on, maybe it isn't a duck at all? Don't make too many assumptions about any thing, one or place for this gathering of Pride. There's so much which had been stuck and is now in motion, it just isn't safe to believe ...[more]

Community Service

Two decades ago, Black Pride showed the community that they had the strength to create change

Published on May 28, 2010, 2:53pm

Though no one could imagine in 1991 what would grow from an effort to meet the basic needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in D.C.'s black gay community, it would be a mistake to say that DC Black Pride started small. It brought together resources and potential that already existed, ultimately showing the community how big it actually was and how much it could do. But it grew out of crisis. In the early 1990s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was devastating ...[more]

Community Resource Guide

Washington, D.C. Community-Based Organizations

Published on May 28, 2010, 1:11pm

Addiction Prevention & Recovery Admin (APRA) 1300 First St. NE3rd FloorWashington, DC 20002Susan Dergman, Clinic Dir.Ph: 202-727-8857Fax: 202-727-0092 AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Blair Underwood Healthcare Clinic2141 K St. NWSuite 606Washington, DC 20037Dr. Roxanne Cox-Iyamu, Medical Dir.Ph: 202-293-8680Fax: 202-293-8694 Andromeda Transcultural Health Center1400 Decatur St. NWWashington, DC 20011Dr. Ricardo Glabis, Exec. Dir.Ph: 202-291-4707Fax: 202-723-4560 Assoc. of Black PsychologistsP.O. Box 55999Washington, DC 20040-5999Benson George Cooke, PresidentPh: 202-722-0808Fax: 202-722-5941www.abpsi.org Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, Inc.P.O. Box 77071Washington, DC 20013Ph: ...[more]

Letter from Eleanor Holmes Norton

Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 12:16pm

International Federation of Black Prides 2010

Official 2010 Events Calendar

Published on May 28, 2010, 12:15pm

, June-Nov. June PORTLAND LATINO PRIDE* Portland, OR June 2-6, 2010 Contact: David Martinez Phone: 503-614-7225 Email: david.martinez3@pcc.edu www.latinogaypridepdx.com SAY IT LOUD! BLACK & LATINO GAY PRIDE* Albany, NY June 4-6, 2010 Contact: Phillip Purse Phone: 518-432-4188 Email: info@inourownvoices.org www.inourownvoices.org NEWARK-ESSEX PRIDE * Newark, NJ June 8-14, 2010 Contact: Perris Straughter Phone: 949-350-5437 Email: newarkessexpride@gmail.com www.newarkessexpride.com BOSTON SPYCE Boston, MA June 10-13, 2010 Contact: Steven Fleury Phone: 617-905-0406 Email: sfleury_1982@yahoo.com www.bostonspyce.com NEW ORLEANS ONYX BLACK PRIDE New Orleans, LA June ...[more]

DC Black Lesbian and Gay pride Recognition Resolution of 2010

Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 12:13pm

Schedule of Events

Black Pride 2010

Published on May 28, 2010, 12:08pm

Host HotelHamilton Crown Plaza14th & K Street NWWashington, D.C.202-682-0111hamiltonhoteldc.com Friday, May 28 DC Black Pride's Opening Reception, 7-10 p.m., in the Hamilton Ballroom, honoring the D.C. City Council, Charlotte Smallwood and Jeffrey Richardson. Free; refreshments and cash bar. Saturday, May 29 Free WorkshopsDC Black Pride presents a series of free workshops today, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel. Details follow. Do You See What I See?: Personal Vision Development10:30 a.m. to NoonHamilton BallroomPresenter: Angela ...[more]