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Cover, Black Lace Issue No. 4 featuring Ginnita Glass, 1992

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🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ Pride Mags #5: BLK, The National Black Lesbian and Gay Newsmagazine.

Covers pictured from 1989-91.

BLK was a monthly newsmagazine based in Los Angeles, edited and published by Alan Bell from 1988-94. It started out as a low-budget (but good-looking) local LA gay and lesbian mag, but eventually expanded nationally, with slick magazine paper and full-color printing. BLK's motto was "where the news is colored on purpose."

More information on BLK and Bell's current work here.

I love this video interview with Alan Bell.

A brief history of BLK.

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Alan Bell:

Alan Bell remains one of the most prominent, vibrant voices within LGBT Journalism. Growing up in a religious household, Bell came out to his family when he moved over to New York to explore careers within the typesetting and magazine industry, which lead him to launch his career in producing and publishing for Gaysweek, a leading gay + lesbian newspaper.

Kickstarting in 1977, Gaysweek saw Alan Bell become the first black publisher within a mainstream gay publication. Bell felt it was important for the magazine to preserve the rich LGBT+ history of the time and it aimed to be a magazine for the entire community.

After Gaysweek began to subside, Bell continued to his groundbreaking work within queer journalism, starting BLK magazine in 1988 (running until 1994) which provided a much needed perspective and inclusivity for black gays and lesbians. Features included interviews with pioneers such as Audre Lorde and remembering passed over the works of gay activists (such as Sylvester), and covers such as indicating the best ten companies for black gay and lesbians to work for, which Bell personally attributes a lot of pride to.

Beyond his editorial and publishing work, he started Black Jack club for black gay men upon his return to Los Angeles which promoted sex positivity and safer sex and was, as Bell states, “a more practical version of addressing the AIDS crisis.” Throughout the 80’s, Bell hosted monthly sex parties which promoted sex positivity while also hosting demonstrations which educated inner-city gay communities on health and social factors.

Alan Bell continues his work, supporting many non-profit organizations, including the Minority AIDS Project, Magic Johnson Foundation and the Black AIDS institute. In 2015, Alan Bell was presented with an LGBT heritage award for his decades of works and was also inducted into the LGBT Journalist Hall of Fame.

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A new variant has been added!

Yellow-legged Flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps) © Alan Bell

It hatches from brown, dark, olive, orange, pale, small, striking, true, tuneful, white, and yellow eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game 🥚 hatch ❤️ collect 🤝 connect

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Roger Dexter & Alan Bell - Corporate World

KPM Music / 1991

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Musée du peuple qui se lève tôt

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1908-21: The Sinn Féin Co-operative People's Bank

1908-21: The Sinn Féin Co-operative People’s Bank

Introduction

The Sinn Féin Bank, formally the Sinn Féin Co-operative People’s Bank was a co-operative bank in Ireland associated with Sinn Féin movement, which operated from August 1908 to October 1921.

The Co-operative Bank was part of Griffith’s plan for national self-sufficiency. It was not a success, though it prepared the way for the later foundation of a National Land Bank.

The bank was…

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