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Darlene Garner

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 28 September 1948  

Ethnicity: African American, Cherokee, Irish

Occupation: Minister, activist

Note 1: Co-founder of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG), 

Note 2: First African American elder in the Metropolitan Community Church

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Darlene Garner: A LGBTQ+ Biography By The Ubuntu Bio Project

Darlene Garner: A LGBTQ+ Biography By The Ubuntu Bio Project

Darlene Garner was born on September 28, 1948. She is an ordained minister, LGBTQ activist, public speaker, and co-founder of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG).

Darlene Onita Garner, of African, Cherokee, and Irish descent, was born in Columbus, Ohio, the oldest of five children. Her parents divorced when she was around two years old. She was raised in the National…

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Posted @withrepost • @theaidsmemorial — “Craig G. Harris, we all owe you a debt of gratitude. As the conference coordinator for the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG), you helped the organization pull off the first major national conference on AIDS in the Black community at the Washington Convention Center in 1986. . I will never forget your teasing me by wearing your pearls to a meeting at the US Department of Health and Human Services to report on how we were spending the $20,000 the Reagan Administration provided for this event. You knew I was concerned it would frighten the hell out of them, and you playfullly hid them as we got off the elevator and walked into the meeting. . I went into terrible denial, even anger at you for not getting tested earlier, when I saw you at a @cdcgov meeting in Atlanta, near the end of your young life, with Kaposi's sarcoma lesions on your face. Of course I was angry, that you too would shortly depart and leave me. . Craig died of AIDS on November 26, 1992. He was 33 years old. Your thoughtful and creative writing remains with us today! Thank you!”— by Gil Gerald . #whatisrememberedlives #theaidsmemorial #aidsmemorial #neverforget #endaids https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv7tOjGHe2B/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uvlhdzkragft

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A brief synopsis

Today was great. I felt like I was home again even though I was nowhere near Queens. I noticed there is no real cheap AND efficient way to get to NY and driving is definitely a no. When I got to the Schomburg, I realized it was already after 1pm and I had to leave by 4:30 to find my bus. However, in my short time there I did go through all of the boxes I asked for from the Joseph Beam collection. I found some shade, tea, and scandalous things but I also saw a connection between Black gay men. Often, they would end their letters with “In brotherhood” which really solidified this idea of community. I also might have found some new stuff on Baltimore because two people on the executive board of NCBLG were from the Baltimore chapter. Although I did not get to read and look over everything, I think I got some decent stuff. I had to remember I wasn’t writing a biography of him so a lot of interesting stuff just was not helpful for my particular paper. I’m still on this bus and the wifi is trash so I will write more when I get home. I’m drafting some of my design now but these are the drafts I don’t want Dr. Brunson and Dr. Howell to see yet!

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Gay & Proud Insurgent

Gay Insurgent A Gay Left Journal, No.6, Daniel C. Tsang, 1980

Don Kao, an activist from New York and I ended up organizing the first gathering of gay and lesbian Asians at the first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in October, 1979, the same weekend as the first gay March on Washington. The conference was organized by the National Coalition of Black Gays. By covering the conference in the magazine, I wanted to make sure that this historic gathering would not be forgotten. … More >

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Following an NCBLG and NGLTF-led campaign, Mrs. Coretta Scott King announces support for national civil rights legislation protecting the rights of gays and lesbians, August 1983. [L to R]: Gil Gerald, Executive Director of NCBLG; Ginny Appuzo, Executive Director of NGTLF; Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco; and Mrs. Coretta Scott King.

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NCBLG: The First Decade

A short video of the early history of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays, 1988