Bayard Rustin Coalition - BRC LGBTQ

10/15/2026

Birthday remembrance

The Bayard Rustin Coalition presents: San Francisco Celebrates 50th...

10/14/2026

🌻 HAPPY HEAVENLY 61st BIRTHDAY, ANDREA SHORTER! 🧡

Some people leave memories. Others leave foundations upon which generations can build. Andrea gave us both. ❤️

Today, we celebrate our beloved friend, community sister, and founding mother of the Bayard Rustin Coalition - affectionately remembered as “Madame Shorter.”

Andrea was a woman of conviction, compassion, and vision. She helped give our coalition its name, and in doing so, helped shape a legacy that continues to bring people together in the pursuit of dignity, equality, and justice.

Happy 61st birthday, dear sister. Your voice may be silent, but your influence is still speaking.

Your light shines on. 🌻✨

10/13/2026

“The Castro is not merely a neighbourhood in San Francisco,” says David Eugene Perry, founder of San Francisco’s LGBT Rainbow Honor Walk and a spokesperson for The Castro Theatre. “It is an idea made physical: a place where history, visibility, grief, celebration, politics, cinema and daily life have converged for generations.”

What Castro means to q***r visitors from countries where Pride is still a crime - Tourism & Events - q***r.lu

10/12/2026

AfroSolo is proud to celebrate Thomas Robert Simpson, the Founder and Executive Director of AfroSolo Theatre Company, as a Howard Thurman Award recipient at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples’ 82nd Anniversary and Annual Howard Thurman Convocation.

For decades, Thomas has used theatre and the arts to create space for Black voices, stories, healing and community. Through AfroSolo, his work has centered the lived experiences of Black people while bringing artists and audiences together around culture, identity and social change.

It is especially meaningful to see his work recognized in connection with the legacy of Dr. Howard Thurman.

Please join in together Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, 2041 Larkin Street at Broadway in San Francisco. A reception will follow the service.

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10/10/2026

Avery Brooks, Captain Sisko himself on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, directed the first romantic kiss between two women in Star Trek history in 1995 - and when a TV news magazine wanted to film it, he said no.

The episode, "Rejoined", reunites Jadzia Dax, played by Terry Farrell, with a woman she had been married to in a past life.

Brooks wanted it told "honestly and truthfully," he said later, "especially for the people who have suffered, you know, in our world, needlessly, because of love." Susanna Thompson, who played Lenara, said he kept them "safe and protected."

Not everyone was ready. One station in the South cut the kiss out of its broadcast. Brooks turns 78 today, and nearly twenty years after it aired, Farrell said people were still thanking her for it.

10/08/2026

Some pictures don’t need no dissertation. They just need an honest comment section. 👀

Because the uncomfortable question isn’t simply whether you "agree" with what’s being said here.

It’s why does it hit a nerve?

We’ve gotten very good at dressing hierarchy up as “preference,” prejudice up as “tradition,” disparagement as "opinion" and unequal treatment up as “just the way things are.”

BRC question for the room:

What does this image get RIGHT - and what, if anything, does it get WRONG?

Don’t just hit 😂, ❤️ or 😡 and run.

Make the argument. Defend your answer.

We’ll bring the chairs.

10/04/2026

Inscrutable utterances beyond even Spock's comprehension... 🤨

10/04/2026

H/T to: Black Knowledge
Vanessa Bowie-Middleton, a 60-year-old Black kitchen manager at Bohach Elementary School in Washoe County, Nevada, received a $60,000 settlement from the Washoe County School District after filing a federal racial discrimination lawsuit.

In January 2022, Bohach Elementary Principal Heidi Gavrilles allegedly told Bowie-Middleton to stop using the cafeteria public address system and stop disciplining misbehaving students.

According to the lawsuit filed in July 2024, the principal stated that white teachers felt "uncomfortable" and "upset" listening to a Black person's tone, accent, and dialect, claiming white teachers "did not want to hear a BLACK voice telling children what to do".

The Washoe County School District denied any wrongdoing and stated the $60,000 payout was made as a business decision to resolve the litigation rather than an admission of liability...

10/02/2026

October is
LGBTQ History Month
in the USA!




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10/02/2026

SIXTEEN YEARS AGO - A tabloid printed our sister's face and home address next to a death threat, along with 99 of Uganda’s other “top homos”. Kasha Nabagesera sued and won, in a country where her sexuality is still criminalized.
Three weeks later her colleague and Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist David Kato, whose information was also published, was grotesquely beaten to death during his assassination staged to look like a gay panic attack.