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What Millennials can learn from the iconic Black queer poet and professor Nikki Giovanni

Quincy Jones—whom The New York Times called the “giant of American music”—writer, critic, and artist Lorraine O’Grady, poet and professor Nikki Giovanni, HIV activist and public servant A. Cornelius Baker, each felled by time’s infinite reach. A post shared by Black AIDS Institute (@blackaids)For years, Millennials—of which I am one—have been called upon to take up the reins of the struggle, to refashion the movement in our image, and to propel it forward.
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Entertainment queer song Interviews Gay track band How punk band the Ramones memorialized this infamous NYC gay cruising spot
The Loop, an area “where young male hustlers [hung] out and older men [cruised] to buy sexual favors.”The fact that such an explicitly LGBTQ+ cruising spot could exist in Manhattan (and so many avenues away from the neighborhood later known as Hell’s Kitchen, at that) is a testament to a bygone and much seedier New York City.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.But it’s this version of the Big Apple that birthed one of punk music’s most influential bands — the Ramones, who paid tribute to the queer spot in their own unique way.Listen.The track appeared on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees’ 1976 self-titled debut album. Although the LP includes some of the group’s most notable tracks — including “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” — it was a commercial flop upon release.
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