The Instagram Account Honouring Black Queer Life in Britain

, the account launched on 1 February this year to coincide with LGBT History Month. In the short time since its inception, it’s already gained a flurry of media coverage and upwards of 5,000 followers.

Jason Okundaye: Also, the pictures that we have are of Black queer people together. Whenever you see representations of this demographic in the past, they’re often depicted as a kind of add-on to a white social network, which was not always not the case. Most Black queer people existed within Black culture. So it’s important to show them with ghetto blasters, at the Black gay club, in Brixton, in these sites of Black cultural heritage.

MT: We put a call for submissions, and we also contacted people directly – people that I’ve hung out, worked, or partied with over the years, old school activists. We just reached out and said, “Can you dig into your photo albums, look into your old cupboards, and pull out anything you’ve got.” And I think that going forward, that’s what we’ll continue to do. But we hope that it becomes so successful that people see the value of what we’re doing, and feel motivated to add to the archive.

MT: We’re both really pleased it’s been so gratefully received by the community. Neither of us imagined that it would grow like this. I think what it demonstrates is there is an appetite for this kind of archive and this kind of history. People are hungry to know what happened in the past and where they come from. And I think that’s why it’s been successful.

I think this shows the same issue that Marc was facing back in the 80s and 90s, that these outlets have always ignored us. And that just confirms why we need projects like this in the first place, because we can’t rely on the broader LGBTQ+ community to record our stories, to preserve our memory, to integrate us. And we don’t even want that integration. We want to show that this is our space.One thing I really like about the account is the fact that it’s an intergenerational project.

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