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Jaye Davidson

March 22, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Jaye Davidson was born on March 21, 1968. He is an American-born British actor, model, and fashion promoter best known for his role as transwoman Dil in the 1992 film “The Crying Game,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Jaye Davidson was born Alfred Amey in Riverside, California, to a Ghanaian father and English mother; he has two sisters. Davidson and his family moved to the United Kingdom when he was […]

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Bryan E. Glover

February 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Bryan E. Glover was born on February 26, 1968. He is a leadership and life coach, spiritual activist, award-winning arts producer, writer, and filmmaker. Bryan E. Glover was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the only child of Emanuel Glover, who was a postal worker and Korean War veteran, and Iris Davis Glover, a former legal secretary and current independent businesswoman. When he was six, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he later attended Daniel Murphy Catholic High School, graduating in 1986. Following high school, he enrolled at […]

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Abdur-Rahim Briggs

January 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Abdur-Rahim Briggs was born on January 26, 1968. He is a respected community advocate, a philanthropist and non-profit founder, and a HIV/AIDS prevention activist. Born Marvin L. Briggs, he is a native of Los Angeles, California, and the son of Raymond Briggs, Sr., who owned his own printing company in South Central Los Angeles, and his mother Hazel Jean Davis (now Hazel Hill), who retired after working at the County of Los Angeles’ General Hospital (yes, the very hospital seen […]

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Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow

December 6, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow was born on December 6, 1968. He is an instructor, author, a sacred activist, and community builder. He has spent many years organizing spiritual congregations for LGBTQ inclusion and marriage equality in California, and currently serves as the senior pastor and teacher of the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit, Michigan. Roland Stringfellow was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the youngest of three children of Henry and Helen Stringfellow. Following high school, he enrolled at Indiana University, […]

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Sean Sasser

October 25, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Sean Sasser was born on October 25, 1968 (to August 7, 2013). He was an educator, HIV/AIDS activist, mentor, pastry chef, and groundbreaking reality television star best known as the partner of fellow activist Pedro Zamora on the third season of MTV’s “The Real World.” Sean Franklin Sasser was born in Detroit, Michigan to Patricia (Pat) Robinson Sasser, the daughter of a minister, and an Army sergeant dad. Sasser’s parents divorced when he was six, and his father was mostly […]

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Jafari S. Allen

October 2, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Dr. Jafari S. Allen was born on October 2, 1968. He is an author, scholar, LGBTQ community advocate, and community builder. Jafari Sinclaire Allen was born in Queens, New York City, the youngest child of J. Herbert Allen, an engineer, and Geri Allen, a homemaker. He attended Springfield Gardens High school before enrolling at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Allen went on to major in Africana Studies and Anthropology at New York University’s Gallatin School (where he was a University Honors […]

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Jason Duval Hunter

September 20, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Jason Duval Hunter was born on September 20, 1968. He is a writer, producer, director, actor, mentor, supporter of the arts, and advocate for several causes, especially for child abuse survivors and issues surrounding sexually abused males. Jason Duval Hunter was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Willie George Lovelace, who was a “rolling stone,” and his mother, Mary Louise Hunter, who served as a single parent of ten children. His stepfather, Bishop Edward Speight, played an important role in Hunter’s young life, filling […]

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Kevin Aviance

June 22, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

[Editor’s note: This biography was created using fragments of Stephen Maglott’s research and other source material] Kevin Aviance was born Eric Snead in Richmond, Virginia, on June 22, 1968. He is a popular female impressionist who performs in clubs as a dancer and a musician, and has created a line of women’s shoes. He became a member of the House of Aviance, a performance group and sponsor of House Balls in Washington DC and New York, acquiring their name in […]

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Created by Stephen A. Maglott (1953-2016). Biographical tributes to distinguished LGBTQ/SGL people of color/African descent.

Tag: 1968

Jaye Davidson

Bryan E. Glover

Abdur-Rahim Briggs

Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow

Sean Sasser

Jafari S. Allen

Jason Duval Hunter

Kevin Aviance