Gay Black Group

The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a sounding board and support for gay and black communities of the 1980s. Sitting on the outside of both by virtue of their sexuality or ethnicity the group attempted to negotiate a path through the complexities of cultural and sexual identity. In this film, members of the group, including filmmaker Isaac Julien, then a student at St Martin's School of Art, talk to Paula Ahluwalia about their experiences.