Black & Gay in Politics: Keith Boykin

[@hellaSwankkyToo]

gaahh!! Darryl Stephens now Keith Boykin!? 🤩🥰 dammmm, Sampson! i see you. 😍 also, wow! you're a great interviewer - love the questions you ask. i'm sure you know this but you're so, so good at this. thank you!

[@Jack_Black536]

Sampson, one of the most thoroughly fleshed out Q & A interviews in your series. Thank you once again sir, for bringing to light those who have contributed, and also sacrificed, much for Black Same Gender Lovin people. Keith Boykin, in my book, will be remembered as a force that had to be reckoned with.

[@jamespudd]

I love Keith. And know he,s very nice person i met years ago. I wish him nothing but best on his book. And love you too Sampson.🤩🤩🤩

[@isaacfitzpatrick8160]

Good video Keith is a very intelligent young man I'm proud of him

[@marcp6405]

Great new interview series of icons. And, yet another black gay man with a thriving house plant. Would love to see your brilliant interviews take this into the sports world of out Black male athletes.

[@ddbarr514]

Sampson and Keith, two of my faves who are living the words of Audre Lorde! Thank you for this discussion with Keith.

[@ciel222]

GREAT video 👏👏👏 He is one of the people I admire in this world

[@dramonmaster222]

Keith Boykin is quite the inspiration.

[@jerrywilliams5407]

Mr. Boykin is so correct when he talks about this hatred of black gay people being a recent phenomenon. Our community was much more accepting of gay people when I was a child. Even looking at my father's generation they didn't have this dislike that is displayed today. I was born in 1959 and my father was born in 1925. We seem to be going backwards.

[@adiaryfromdarrylscorner2017]

I love your videos/interviews I just wish they were longer to soak all the goodness

[@MrBeautifullyhuman]

Keith, Thank you for your continued Inspiration and transparency. Sampson-I Look forward to your interviews, Sharing your platform with Inspiring individuals. Excellence in Blackness.

[@DougCooperSpencer1]

Service. That is a mark of Keith's life. Add to service, graciousness. A friend for almost 25 years, I've worked with Keith and have been blessed to be in the spaces he lived and served for our community. Also, Keith speaking of hyper homophobia in the black community, he is sooo correct. Having grown up in an all-black city and having come out in 1972, I had so much support from the black community. I write about it in my short memoir 'The Year of Sun and Moon' in 'A River Runs Beneath Us' GREAT INTERVIEW, SAMPSON! HEY KEITH!

[@wzupkanye21]

You are doing GODS WORK 🙏🏿💯🙌🏿

[@BeNice92]

Whew this man is fine!!!!

[@Lepewhi]

He could eat crackers in my bed anytime😊

[@Joshua-re3xw]

Yes he is 😍😍😍

[@davidcooper177]

Keith Boykin! I admire you for the courage and determination that you came out.

[@terrancecalhoun3147]

Great interview Sampson and Keith.

[@ctcarllthornton9]

I love Keith! He's such an inspiration and beautiful ray of light! ♥️👏🏾👏🏾♥️

[@NcebaDayile]

Excellence at its best very inspiring 🇿🇦

[@ray7100ray]

🙏🏾✨Fantastic video/ wisdom 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌎Ray from Chicago south side 💙🤍🖤💛❤️✨🙏🏾

[@sedecim]

A very fitting gift for black history month. Thank you both for sharing this. I have always appreciated you both as black queer peers over the years. Bless you both.

[@mr.regenold6572]

The Boykins are one of my favorite families. Love You Boy kins 🏈

[@yngblkguy21]

I enjoyed this a lot!! ❤❤❤

[@farahgiama]

Very deep indeed! Love it😍

[@MichaelJohnson-wk8tk]

Oh man, Keith has been an inspiration for me! Actually, both of you are. Awesome interview..........thanks!

[@ernesthopkins3746]

Great conversation with one of our most intentional, and fearless leaders. Bravo.

[@alphamamadoubarry57]

Excellent

[@johnmccall1142]

Great interview with Keith. He is very knowledgeable.

[@heyrobertcarter1]

Love him, such an inspiration❤

[@richardgoodjoin3250]

excellent conversation. Mr. Boykin has always been a very committed spokesman for black gay men

[@Jerry-xs1uz]

Keith has been on the battle field for a long time!!! I LOVE HIM KING 👑👑👑🖤👑

[@kharlosdamonpanterra8162]

I came of age in the early 1970's. The anti-LGBTQ+ was horrific. I left Washington DC for university in 1973 and never really went back to live. It wasn't safe for any of us that weren't straight. I believe that Black men loving Black men is truly revolutionary because collectively we've never done it. It would absolutely disrupt the paradigm of divide an conquer that we've been living under for at least the entire period since the Atlantic trade of enslaved persons.

[@justgojustdoit3363]

This was MOST MARVELOUS. Had not heard from Keith Boykin in years. So, smart and what he said about the timeline HE IS CORRECT! The 80, s and aids but also the CHARASMATIC you might say jump in popularity opened the door to a lot of "CHRISTIAN" moralizing. The word church and all because I TOO don't recall a lot of this in OUR churches in the 70's. It was more don't ask don't tell or EVERYONE KNEW about J.C. (uhhhh King of Gospel) but no one even cared or spoke of it. But 80,s and AIDS changed it. 90's HIP HOP put the nail in the gay coffin. (There, I'll say it)

[@davidcooper177]

KEITH BOYKIN YOU WERE OUT IN FRONT FIGHTING FOR LGBTQIA PEOPLE RIGHTS ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO. ALL THAT WORK YOU DID ALONE HAS PAID OFF. BECAUSE OF YOUR VISION THAT YOU HAD TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE PROMISE LAND AND HARD WORK you did TO REACH IT, THE LGBTQI COMMUNITY IS IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE TODAY THAN 30 YEARS AGO. I love this brother!

[@nikk5002]

What is that song in the intro?

[@sampsonmccormick]

“African Dance Festival” by Bryan Colon

[@kennethmitchell3477]

I applaud you two for all you have done and continue to do in the Black sgl community and ultimately for the community at large. What you are doing is so liberating to hundreds and thousands.

[@oaktownbrown9275]

When I think of Keith's legacy extending back 30 years (pre-social media old heads will remember his BLARE newsletter), I'll argue that he's the most important and visible Black gay/SGL man in a generation. Others definitely stand on his broad shoulders.