Native Son Announces Annual Year End ‘Native Son 101’

*(New York, New York) – With 2023 quickly coming to an in depth, Native Son – the main group championing Black homosexual and queer males – immediately unveiled its annual year-end Native Son 101 Record highlighting a robust collective of Black homosexual and queer males who made an unimaginable impression all year long. Now in its fourth 12 months, the 101 Record honors leaders, mavericks, and innovators within the Black homosexual and queer group who achieved unprecedented cultural heights and turn out to be historic firsts, and those that are utilizing their platforms to interrupt by way of obstacles and glass ceilings of their respective roles, professions, and areas of experience. The 2023 version may also see Native Son as soon as once more partnering with The Lower for a second 12 months. 

Conceived by Native Son Founder Emil Wilbekin, this 12 months’s checklist incorporates a vary of social justice and social impression activists, media mavericks, politicians, visible and performing artists, entrepreneurs, style designers and stylists, actors, administrators, authors, musicians, and teachers. The 2023 class consists of Emmy Award-winning and GRAMMY-nominated entertainer Wayne Brady who got here out as pansexual earlier this 12 months and opened up about his journey towards self-discovery; Tony Award-winning actor J. Harrison Ghee who’s the primary non-binary performer to win a Tony Award together with Alex Newell; and Maryland State Delegate Ashanti Martinez who turned the first overtly LGBTQ+ member of the Basic Meeting from Prince George’s County District 22 within the Maryland Home of Delegates. Further honorees embody Emmy Award-winning actor Colman Domingo; legendary stylist Legislation Roach; famend journalist and anchor Don Lemon, NAACP Picture Award-winning actor Nicco Annan, choreographer Sean Bankhead; former NFL participant, creator, and advocate R.Okay. Russell; Sandro, the breakout star of The Nice British Bake Off; and Fabian Nelson, the primary overtly homosexual state legislator in Mississippi.

“2023 has been a 12 months of nice contrasts. There have been unprecedented assaults in opposition to the LGBTQ+ group with over 500 anti-queer laws and simultaneous assaults in opposition to Black historical past and tradition,” stated Wilbekin. “And nonetheless, Black homosexual and queer males have ascended making historical past in politics, shifting narratives in media, TV, and movie, and holding crucial positions of energy in enterprise and expertise. Dwelling on the intersection of our Blackness and our queerness could be each difficult and triumphant. Meet the rebels and the soldiers in our group who’re doing good work to push previous any roadblocks – those that are creating alternatives, appearing as brokers of change, and who’re advocates for everybody to have the ability to stand loud and proud of their reality. This 12 months’s 101 Record is proof of our resilience, innovation, and bravado.”

“I’m past thrilled to have The Lower collaborate with Native Son for the second consecutive 12 months,” says editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples. “Collectively, we embark on a journey to amplify Black queer voices, a mission near my coronary heart. Elevating these voices is not only a dedication; it’s a celebration of resilience and energy.”

Created in 2020 in the course of the worldwide well being disaster and racial fairness protests, the Native Son 101 Record originated as a option to have a good time Black homosexual and queer males of all ages and honor people in the neighborhood who had completed impactful work all year long. The checklist appeared on www.nativeson.us and Instagram. It consists of an in depth and complete checklist of 101 Black homosexual and queer males in a variety of fields and areas of experience.

The 2023 Native Son 101 Record is illustrated by C.J. Robinson.

Please see beneath for the classes and honoree names for the 2023 Native Son 101 Record. To learn The Lower’s function, please click on HERE. The total checklist and gallery could be discovered HERE

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FASHION & BEAUTY

B Michael – Vogue Designer and Creator of MUSE: Cicely Tyson and Me

Bishme Cromartie – Designer; Venture Runway All Stars Winner 2023

Jahleel Weaver – Superstar Stylist; LVMH Inventive Director, Fenty Home

Kingsley Gbadegesin – Designer; Founder & CEO, Okay.NGSLEY

Legislation Roach – “Retired” Superstar Vogue Stylist

Matthew Henson –  Superstar Stylist & Model Advisor 

Philip-Daniel Ducasse – Vogue Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker 

Rafael Pavarotti – Vogue Photographer, Vogue/British Vogue

Ty Hunter – Superstar Stylist; Designer; Creator (Makeover From Inside: Classes in Hardship, 

Acceptance, and Self-Discovery)

Ugo Mozie – Superstar Stylist

MEDIA

Alvin Corridor – Podcast Host and Creator (Driving The Inexperienced Ebook: A Highway Journey By the Dwelling Historical past of Black)

Chris Witherspoon – CEO of Pop Views and Contributor of MSNBC, NBC Information, and the “Right now Present”

Dominic Gaye and Korey “Okay. Keith” McRae – Management, Gaye Journal

Don Lemon – Famend journalist and anchor 

Eric Jones Jr. – Producer “Good Morning America” and Expertise Lead Tradition Con

Eugene Daniels – Washington Correspondent, Politico; Co-Creator (Playbook)

Hakeem Lathon – VP, Essence Pageant of Tradition

Kai Wright and André Robert Lee – Host and Govt Producer, Notes From America With Kai Wright – NPR’s WNYC Studios

Kareem “Mr. Bake” Queeman – James Beard Nominated Chef (Meals Community, Netflix’s Sugar Rush Christmas, Prime Chef Decide)

LZ Granderson – OpEd Columnist, LA Occasions, Contributor, ABC Information; Host, Life Out Loud Podcast

Marcus Smith – Govt Producer, KTLA 5 Information

Obio Jones – Content material Creator/ Wellness Influencer, LGBTQ+ Advocate, Coach, Speaker, and Podcast Host

Raymond Warren – Director, Multicultural & Inclusive Options, The Walt Disney Firm; Founder, Warren Advertising and marketing & Media Options

Ricky D. Irving Jr. – Emmy Award-Profitable Producer, CBS This Morning

Ryan Mitchell – Media Character, Leisure Host & Tradition Commentator

Scott Evans  – TV Host, Entry Hollywood; Member, Tv Academy Basis Board of Administrators

The G.R.I.T.S. Co. Podcast (Earl Martin, Taden Web page, and Julian Floyd)

FILM & TELEVISION

Ashton Pina — Director, Producer & Author (Nana’s Boys on Showtime) 

Colman Domingo – Actor/Author/Producer (Rustin, The Colour Purple, You Are Right here, Fats Ham)

Dennis Williams – SVP, Company Affairs & Company Social 

Dewayne Perkins – Screenwriter & Star of The Blackening 

Physician Darien Sutton, MD – Medical Contributor. ABC Information

Julian Breece   Director; Screenwriter (Rustin)

Kevin J. Stuckey – Head of Group, Multicultural Publicity, Netflix

Mark R. Wright – Vice President, Movie, HigherGround; Producer (Who Cloned Tyrone, Rustin) 

Marquis Phifér  –  Head Of Cultural Advertising and marketing, Hillman Grad Productions

Ncuti Gatwa – Actor (Barbie, Dr. Who, Intercourse Training)

Nicco Annan  – Actor (P-Valley)

Preston D. Mitchum  – Lawyer; Advocate; Activist; TV character (Bravo’s Summer time

Home: Martha’s Winery) 

Sandro – Chef, Baker, Content material Creator, and TV Character (The Nice British Bake Off)

Wayne Brady – Actor; Entertainer; TV Host (Let’s Make a Deal) 

THEATER & DANCE

Anthony Wayne – Pippin, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Black Broadway Males

George C. Wolfe – Director (RUSTIN); two-time Tony Award-winner 

J. HarrisonGhee –Tony Award-Profitable Actor (Some Like It Sizzling) 

Jamal Sims – Emmy Nominated Choreographer, Producer and Director

Jonathan McCrory – Govt Creative Director, Nationwide Black Theatre; Producing Creative Chief, The Motion Theatre Firm

Nick Coutsier – Choreographer; Motion Director (Pharrell X Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Girl Gaga, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen)

Sean Bankhead – Dancer and Choreographer; Decide (MTV’s Changing into a Popstar)

Stephen Galloway – Choreographer and Inventive Motion Director (YSL, Miley Cyrus)

Tarell Alvin McCraney– Creative Director, Geffen Playhouse 

MUSIC 

Bongeziwe Mabandla – South African Soul Singer 

Brian Henry aka DJ B-Hen – DJ (Coachella, Renaissance Afterparty in Paris, BET Awards, LA Pleasure, SXSW) 

Durand Bernarr – Singer-Songwriter; Producer; Host and Actor (B-Boy Blues; A Black Girl Sketch Present)

Jason King – Dean, USC Thornton College of Music, Host, Spotify’s Sound Barrier: Sylvester Podcast Sylvester Podcast. 

Malcolm J. Merriweather –  Conductor; Grammy Nominated  Director, New York Philharmonic Refrain

serpentwithfeet – Singer/Musician 

POLITICS 

Ashanti Martinez – Maryland State Delegate 

Davante Lewis – Louisiana Public Service Commissioner 

Fabian Nelson – Mississippi State Consultant

Decide Jamar Okay. Walker – U.S. District Decide, Jap District of VA. 

Justice Horn – Chair, Kansas Metropolis LGBTQ Fee 

Troy Blackwell Jr. – Senior Advisor and Spokesperson for Biden-Harris Administration; Chairman of the NYC Homosexual Males’s Refrain 

ACTIVISM & COMMUNITY

Bishop OC Allen and Rashad Burgess – Bishop, Imaginative and prescient Church & Cathedral of Atlanta; VP of Advancing Well being and Black Fairness at Gilead

Avery R. Younger – Poet and Activist (Chicago’s First Poet Laureate)

Darren Walker – President of the Ford Basis

Deon T. Jones – Artist, Performer and Activist

Dexter Mayfield – Dancer, Actor, Mannequin, Choreographer, Physique Mannequin  Public Determine // Black Queer Physique Constructive Activist and Influencer; 

Don Abram – Founder and Govt Director, Pleasure In The Pews 

Dr. Brinkley PsyD, LMFT and David Brandyn – Hosts, #SissyThePsyche

Eddie Ndopu — South African Incapacity Rights Advocate; World Advocate of the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets 

Erin Whalen – Founder and Govt Director, Da Vinci RISE Excessive College 

Gabriel Maldonado – CEO and Founder, TruEvolution/Venture Legacy LGBTQ Group Campus

Jean Dolin – Founder, Boston LGBTQ+ Museum of Artwork, Historical past & Tradition; Social Influence Entrepreneur and Cultural Producer;  Forbes 30 Underneath 30

Jor-El Caraballo, LMHC – Psychological Well being Therapist; Co-founder, Viva Psychological Well being; Creator (Self Look after Black Males)

Joshua Allen – Artist Activist; Creator, Returning House Superb Arts Collection; Founding Organizer & Director, Black Excellence Collective

Tim’m T. West – Govt Director, LGBTQ Institute

LITERATURE & BOOKS

Donovan X. Ramsey – Creator (Crack Was King: A Individuals’s Historical past of a Misunderstood Period)

Hilton Als – Curator, Educator creator (God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin)

Justin Michael Williams – Grammy Nominated Recording Artist; Creator (How We Ended Racism: Realizing a New Chance in One Era)

Steven W. Thrasher – Journalist, Educator, and Tutorial; Creator (The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Illness Collide)

R.Okay. Russell – Former NFL participant and the Creator (The Yards Between Us)

VISUAL ARTS

Damien Davis– Visible Artist 

Eric Hart Jr. – Photographer, Creator (Once I Suppose About Energy), Google Picture

Fairness Fellow

Jacolby Satterwhite – Visible, Efficiency, and Multimedia Artist (A Metta Prayer, The Met 

Museum)

Jonathan Lyndon Chase – Visible Artist 

Justen LeRoy – Multidisciplinary Artist & Curator(X’ene’s Witness); Director of Public  

Applications,  MOCA

Phillip Michael Collins – Founder and CEO, Good Black Artwork

Quil Lemons – Visible Artist and Photographer (Quiladelphia )

BUSINESS

Alvin Wayne – Inside Designer/Product Designer

Corey Damen Jenkins – Inside Designer, Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates 

Darren Walker – President of The Ford Basis

James Cole Jr. – Chairman and CEO, Jasco Group and AIG Board member

Marques Zak – Director of Cultural Platforms, American Specific

Omari Jahi Aarons-Martin –  Govt Director and COO, Nationwide African-American Insurance coverage Affiliation

Jonathan Kirland – Head of Advertising and marketing & Model, BLK

Torrence Boone – VP World Consumer Partnerships, Google; Member, Macy’s Board of Administrators

EDUCATIONDr. Sean Larry Stevens– Govt Director, Adams Avenue Basis, Creator and Podcast Host, Stroll In Your Excellence; Management and Training Thought Chief and Social Justice Advocate 

Nathaniel Langford Currie – Professor, Clark Atlanta College/Whitney Younger Jr. College of Social Work; Licensed Psychotherapist; Skilled in Queer Research

Shaun R. Harper – College and Provost Professor within the Rossier College of Training and the Marshall College of Enterprise, College of Southern California; Founder and Govt Director, USC Race and Fairness Heart; Member, Nationwide Board for Training Sciences

About Native SonNative Son is a motion that exemplifies the duality of being Black and homosexual in a society that always shuns and belittles their distinctive experiences. This motion goals to create a secure area the place the Black homosexual and queer group can fellowship, have a good time and empower one another, and—most significantly—see themselves.  From the world-renowned to the up-and-coming, Native Son goals to attach and have a good time the members of this influential, but long-ignored group within the realms of arts, enterprise, media, style, politics, and healthcare.

About Emil WilbekinEmil Wilbekin is the Founding father of Native Son, a platform created to encourage and empower Black Homosexual Males. He has appeared On-Air discussing popular culture, style/model, leisure and present affairs on The Right now Present, NBC Channel 4 Information New York, E!, VH-1, MTV, BET, CNN, The Insider, Come up 360, Revolt, and PBS. Wilbekin has experience in editorial creation,m content material curation and multimedia storytelling (print, digital, social, video, and reside occasions) having served as Chief Content material Officer at Afropunk, Editor-at-Massive at Essence, Managing Editor of Essence.com, Editor-in-Chief of Big and Giantmag.com, Type Guru at Advanced Media, VP of Model Improvement at Marc Eckō Enterprises, Editorial Director/Vice President of Vibe Ventures and Editor-in-Chief of Vibe Journal. Underneath Wilbekin’s management, Vibe received the Nationwide Journal Award for Basic Excellence in 2002.supply: flowerspragency.com

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