Kenyon Farrow, former executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, will deliver the Coming Out Month keynote address titled “Is Gay the New Black?” on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event is free and open to the public.
Farrow graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a theatre major in 1997. He has worked as an organizer, communications strategist and writer on issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS, prisons and homophobia. His campaigns have focused on tackling homophobia in the black community.
Farrow is the co-editor of Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (2005) and the upcoming Stand Up!: The Shifting Politics of Racial Uplift. A member of the executive committee of Connect 2 Protect New York, and the Center for Gay & Lesbian Studies, Farrow is currently working on a new report on the Tea Party and LGBT politics with Political Research Associates.
A member of the executive committee of Connect 2 Protect New York, and the Center for Gay & Lesbian Studies, Farrow is currently working on a new report on the Tea Party and LGBT politics with Political Research Associates.
The event is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center.
