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3rd Annual ‘Old Skool’ Barbeque Honors Community Elders
From staff reports
LOS
ANGELES – The 3rd Annual ‘Old Skool’ Barbeque took
place in South Los Angeles Sunday, Aug. 24. Now one of the summer’s
most anticipated events for Los Angeles’ Black gay community,
this year’s event drew an estimated 150 attendees including
gospel and blues legend Linda Hopkins and benefited Los Angeles’ Black
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by donating all
of the proceeds to an upcoming town hall meeting on the state of
Black gay Los Angeles.
Pictured above are the 2008 Old Skool Community Honorees with event
organizer Paul Scott: (l-r) Russell Thornhill, a pastor at Unity Fellowship
Church; Vinessa Romain, board chair of Long Beach Gay Pride; event organizer
Paul Scott; Carrie Broadus, executive director of Women Alive, a Los Angeles-based
coalition of, by and for women living with HIV/AIDS; and Khadijah representing
La Verne “Mother Rose,” longtime transgender community activist.
Not pictured are Wendell Carmichael, president of At the Beach (ATB)
Los Angeles Black Gay Pride; Cleo Manago, founder of AmASSI, a nonprofit,
community-based health, wellness and cultural affirmation center; and community
activist Alton Miranda (posthumous).
In addition to receiving their community award, Los Angeles city
council members Bernard Parks (8th District), Jan Perry (9th District),
Herb Wesson (10th District) and Bill Rosendahl (11th District) as well
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa extended congratulations via certificates
of appreciation and recognition .
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