HIV/Aids

During the 1980s and 1990s, Black activists and organizations found it important to raise awareness about Black LGBTQ+ history by uplifting the narratives of people like Bayard Rustin, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Gladys Bentley. They argued that the erasure of Black LGBTQ+ people was one of the reasons Black communities were so severely impacted by HIV and AIDS. In addition to telling stories, they created spaces to mourn the lives that were lost to AIDS.