SOULE magazine (Seekers of Unity, Love & Equality), he wanted to educate, empower, and inspire the Black LGBTQ+ and same-gender-loving community.The vision, he says, was to “create a platform where the community could feel seen, experience a sense of community, and feel empowered to share their voices.”When he was growing up, there weren’t many magazines out there where Li could see himself reflected.
But after watching the 2004 Rodney Evans film Brother to Brother — which portrays the founding of the Harlem Renaissance magazine Fire!! (created by Langston Hughs, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P.