Welcome to DBQ. This publication, now entering it’s15th year was established to not only document the culture, experience, and work of LGBTQ+ people of color, but to affirm, celebrate and o garner visibility for community.
I took the year 2021 off. I did not write one thing, give a speech, model in a photoshoot, I barely posted on social media, and I did not release a single issue of this magazine after a decade of faithfully communicating from this medium every season. I needed time to reset my palate, to affirm that my voice was still needed here and that my contribution in this form remains meaningful. I took a break because those who do not become stale, dulled, and burnt out -- losing their command of God within them.
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In 1990, at the age of 23 with two small children my mother, Jill Jones, was dianogsted with AIDS and given less than 6 months to live. Today almost 30 years later at the ripe age of 51 she shares her remarkable story. Listen in on our raw conversation about her journey towards healing.
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