Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin wrote, “Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it,” and globally as the world was grappling with being shut in during a pandemic, Black LGBTQ+ creatives were cooking up years of ideas they had been holding on to.
If the pandemic taught us anything, it was that people had time to think about their lives, the media they consumed, and how they were reflected in it.
In 2023, GLAAD established the first-ever Black Queer Creative Summit specifically geared toward empowering, educating, and training emerging Black LGBTQ+ creatives across five sectors of the entertainment industry.
This demand for more content from Black creators is only amplified by the latest Gallup poll which found the LGBTQ+ population in the United States is growing.