What We Pass Along: 25 Black Queer Lives
Our Black Gay Diaspora is part of a two-part essay and video by BLKOUT Founder Robert Berkeley that takes a close, scholarly look at interviews I conducted from 2021 to 2026 with 25 Black queer guests based in the UK.
Rob analyzes these conversations through a question Joseph Beam asked over 35 years ago: “What is it that we pass along to them, or do they, too, need to start from scratch?”
What We Pass Along, Part One: How They Stand
Explores how guests hand back labels, stay in rooms, leave small cities to breathe, hold the line, and make themselves visible so the next person can be.
What We Pass Along, Part Two: What They Pass Along
Looks at the rooms we build, who holds the keys, love, pleasure, and what changes when people become the keepers of their own record.
What We Pass Along: 25 Black Queer Lives
American writer Joseph Beam asked what Black gay men pass along to the young men coming after them. Between 2021 and 2026, Erick Taylor Woodby's podcast, Our Black Gay Diaspora, interviewed 25 of them in Britain. This short film highlights what they said.