#nativesonawards

[earlsings]

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Reposted from @nativesonnow Black gay men are so ambitious! Thank you @brittonsmithworld for using your voice to create space for social justice on Broadway and to create Black liberation through @brittonandthesting Congratulations on your Native Son Award! 🎥 @lamontbaldwin #NativeSonAwards #Truth #Power #Voice #Visibility #Community #Black #Queer #Gay #BlackQueerExcellence #Maverick #OurVoice #OurStory #OurPower #NativeSon https://www.instagram.com/p/CgCrlbKAXyU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jeffreycwilliams]

how beautiful is @iamsamfine 😍🙌🏾 // always a pleasure seeing you and what a lovely repensentaion of a @nativesonnow 🖤// #nativesonawards #keepgoing #sendinglove #samfine #jeffhova #jeffreycwilliams #dotwallet #nativeson #cadillac https://www.instagram.com/p/Bue8V1DFLM2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14xc0m2pwkyxk

[jeffreycwilliams]

there’s something beautiful and in powering about owning your identity... while still constantly growing into ones self 🖤🕊✨// thank you @nativesonnow for inviting me to #nativesonawards honoring and representing gay black excellence💫also thanks for being a healing, beautiful, important, face, and place for us😘 @emilwilbekin // my shoes and handbag are made by me :) // my crystal dress @trashandvaudeville // #nativeson #riseandshine #keepgoing #sendinglove #jeffhova #jeffreycwilliams #oneofthem https://www.instagram.com/p/Bud98ZYl72C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1aavurhpg5n6k

[worldofwilbekin]

NATIVE SON X KH STUDIO: WE EXISTS

“Therefore, when I began, seriously, to write – when I knew I was committed, that this would be my life – I had to try to describe that particular condition which was – is – the living proof of my inheritance. And, at the same time, with that very same description, I had to claim my birthright. I am what time, circumstances, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.” — James Baldwin, Note Of A Native Son

 PHOTOS: Kevin Harry

[worldofwilbekin]

NATIVE SON AWARDS

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016, I hosted the inaugural NATIVE SON AWARDS to celebrate Black Gay Men and pay homage to three men who have been mavericks in their professions and community, and who also live their lives authentically. CNN’s Don Lemon, Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson, and two time Tony Award winning playwright, director and producer George C. Wolfe were honored. 

The NATIVE SON AWARDS were held at Cadillac House in lower Manhattan and sponsored by Cadillac, HBO and Belvedere Red. 

The music for the evening was curated by Bill Coleman of Peace Biscuit. Singer, actor, educator and Mister of Music at First Corinthian Baptist Church Charles Anthony Bryant performed “Let Them Hear You” from Ragtime. Photographer Kevin Harry created a KH Zine X Native Son Portrait Studio to capture striking images of the attendees. And the food for the evening was catered by Chef Max Hardy. 

NATIVE SON is my new platform created to inspire and empower Black Gay Men. I call it a movement to bring us together in a positive space to engage in fellowship, mentorship, and networking. NATIVE SON is named after James Baldwin’s Notes Of A Native Son. The intention of NATIVE SON is to change the narrative of Black Gay Men and elevate their existence in the world. EW