Kimber K. Shade and Isaiah Esquire Created Blackout as a Place to Be Queer and Unapologetically Black
This year's Juneteenth, June 19, 2022, will be a day of celebration, remembrance, and hopefully change. It is the day our fair city of Portland will simultaneously commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall riots (arguably the birth of the modern gay rights movement) and the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth: the day Black Americans celebrate the official end of US slavery—two and a half years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. At first glance, the overlapping dates...
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