Our History is Our Strength

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Welcome to the new and improved "Coming Out Black" website where we celebrates the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, in-the-life, same gender loving people of African descent. COB is the most comprehensive online repository of biographical profiles for Black LGBTQ-ITL-SGL folk.
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    May 2012 Survey
    Will President Obama's recent support of Gay Marriage influence the way you will vote in this year's presidential election?

Black LGBTQ-SGL-ITL
Voter Campaign

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Starting in June 2012, COB will start a voter campaign to determine how many US voter-aged LGBTQ-SGL-ITL people of African descent will be voting in the upcoming "Presidential Election." Please come back and make your pledge to vote. Let's Rock the Black Gay Vote!

Person of the Week

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Nikky Finney

In the news ...

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Complexity in black church reactions to Obama’s gay marriage announcement Click here to read rest of article ...

More Black Church ...

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Dr. Boyce Watkins writes that It’s OK to be Gay in the Black Church, Just Keep It To Yourself Click here for the rest of this article