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Jamal Jordan

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Perspective | What does it mean to grow old as an LGBTQ person?

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By Jamal Jordan
| The Washington Post Verified
A few years ago, while reporting my book “Queer Love in Color,” I posted a photo online of an older gay couple that I’d met. The image went viral, and one recurring comment stuck out to me: young queer people who said that they’d never seen an older gay man before. Queerness is often conflated with youth, but what does it mean for an entire population of people to not have any reflections of what life can be like as you age? Illustrations by Arantza Peña Popo.
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In Brooklyn, Dweller Festival: a utopia for Black DJs

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By Jamal Jordan
| The Washington Post Verified
NEW YORK — If you’ve never been to a rave before, it can be hard to understand exactly how music and the body can become one. This feeling is increasingly rare in an era of cellphone videos and the constant threat of ending up in the background of someone’s TikTok. But what I’ve learned is that if you give yourself to the music, the music will give back.
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LGBTQ youth want role models. Queer elders have a lot of advice.

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By Jamal Jordan
| NewsBreak
"A White man calls out a black woman saying, I had the same experience and never complained!" Lesson on Racial Trauma *This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission. I shared an article recently about a sad experience I encountered at an airport some years back where a White cashier ignored me and asked the White guy in front of me to proceed when I was clearly the first in line.
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