Black, African, Caribbean LGBT achievers recognized during Black History Month
Toronto: Recipients of the 2009 Queering Black History initiative were announced today by Egale Canada and Stop Murder Music (Canada). The initiative recognizes the creative dedication and achievements of Black, African and Caribbean queers in Canada.
“The initiative increases the visibility and presence of Black, African and Caribbean queers in Canada,” says Akim Adé Larcher , Founder of Stop Murder Music (Canada) “It’s the first of its kind in Canada and I’m proud to announce it during Black history month.”
Stop Murder Music (Canada) also recognizes the support of the Community One Foundation in making this initiative possible.
| 2009 Queering Black History Recipients |
| Trey Anthony |
Douglas Stewart |
| Alexis Musanganya |
Monica Forrester |
| Angela Robertson |
Nik Redman |
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Trey Anthony is the award-winning playwright of da Kink in my Hair. Critics have referred to Anthony as “The Oprah of the Canadian theatre scene”!
Anthony is also the Executive Producer, Co-creator, and Writer of Global Television’s hit television show “da Kink in my Hair,” which includes the first black lesbian kiss (Episode 108) ever to be broadcast on primetime television. |
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Alexis Musanganya is a thirty-five year-old Rwandan-Canadian who has been living in Montréal for the last ten years. He works as a Webmaster for the office of Public Consultation in Montréal.
In 2004, Musanganya founded Arc en ciel d’Afrique, which is an LGBT community organization that connects LGBT immigrants of African and Caribbean origin living in Québec. (www.arcencieldafrique.org) |
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Angela Robertson is the Executive Director of Sistering: A Woman’s Place, which is a multi-service women’s organization for marginalized, poor, and homeless women.
Robertson is a former senior staff executive of the Ontario Women’s Directorate, the Homes First Society, the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, and the Women’s Educational Press. |
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Douglas Stewart is an Equity Consultant in the fields of organizational change management, diversity, human rights, and cultural competence. His work focuses on building the capacity of smaller community-based not-for-profit organizations and providing strategic planning, systems reviews, process facilitation, and a range of professional development services. |
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Monica Forrester is a transgendered woman of colour born and raised in Toronto. For the past ten years, she has been working with the 519 Church Street Community to help low-income women sexworkers and to bring more visibility to agencies that trans women access. .
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Nik Redman is an artist, activist, and community worker who was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in both Barbados and Canada.
He is a member of the GBQ Trans Men’s Working Group, the Ontario Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance, Toronto’s Prisoners Justice Action Committee, the Trans Fathers 2B Parenting Course Project Team, and the MaBwana Community Advisory Committee, which is a Black/African/Caribbean MSM research project.
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