racism and discrimination in so-called LGBT+ ‘safe spaces’.In response to this issue, UK Black Pride was created in 2005 – founded by Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah, also known as Lady Phyll – with the aim to promote unity and co-operation among all Black people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent, as well as their friends and families, who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.But the history of Black Gay Pride beyond the UK extends much further back.
The movement in the US started in the 1990s as an alternative to the overwhelmingly white mainstream LGBT+ movement at the time, and a way to push back against the long history of oppression and exclusion of people of colour.Today, there are around.