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carlos @melrose
For Community 🏳️‍🌈 and Culture ✊🏾 📍DC is home. Ask me about Queer History! 🫣

Front Cover of the July 1991 edition of the National Black Lesbian & Gay Magazine; Vol. 3, No. 6.
Anybody else excited for the new album drop!!!!!
Amapiano 😌
Henry and his boyfriend, Mingle. From the series Just Like Us, 2016. By Eric Gyamfi.
Damn I been really wanting to play one of this but didn’t have time to stop and jam! Until next time!
a soothing chill beat 😌
It feels so rare to find a corner of the internet where the noise fades away and all that's left is peace, love, and understanding. The anxiety, trauma, and constant debates of other platforms can be overwhelming, but here—this queer space—everything clicks. I'm so thankful to be part of a community where I can show up as my authentic self and not feel drained or attacked. This is what it feels like to exist without the constant weight of the world on your shoulders. Sending love! It’s a reminder that we can have spaces that uplift, not overwhelm. ✨🌈
Night at the Coffeehouse ☕️ Patron Darrin Frisbee and club founder Ray Melrose pictured inside the DC Based Gay Bar the Coffeehouse. Photo Credit: Fierceness Served! Archive
Richmond Barthé posing with Africa Awakening (1959) Sculpture. Barthé was a Black Gay Sculptor who honored the Black male body with grace, sensuality, and power.
Kurt’s Nightclub in 1990. (Au Courant Photo Collection, John J. Wilcox Jr. LGBT Archives) 📍Philadelphia, PA
Adding this classic to the collecting 🎶
Renaissance City by 🎨 LeRoy Foster A powerful vision of Black rebirth by LeRoy Foster—a trailblazing Black gay muralist once called the Michelangelo of Detroit.
AMEN 🙏🏾
Will West is such an amazing dancer!
SirDavis tonight 😋
Blacklight Magazine June 1980 Cover. “D.C.’s Emerging Black Gay Middle Class”
Alain Locke, Black Queer scholar & Father of the Harlem Renaissance. A legacy rooted in art, truth, and liberation.
The day is bleh but at least I got the sun! ☀️🌞
Today feels a bit bland. Trying hard to get through it.
From the series “Black Queer Diaspora in the Netherlands” © Dustin Thierry
In the clouds ⛅️
📸 At NYC’s underground disco The Loft.
Smoke Clouds, 1985, by Patric McCoy. Courtesy of the artist.
Good morning sunshine ☀️
New look 👀
Three Navy Sailors, 1969 – 72. 📸 Alvin Baltrop Collection Morteza Baharloo, Houston.
For every storm ⛈️ there is a rainbow 🌈
Can I be your bodyguard?
Sketch in Blackheart: A Journal of Writing and Graphics by Black Gay Men, 1985
Nic & Justice
San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade 1978
The Wire
Hi 🤭
Biker Bar Cocktail
Why is it so damn hot outside 😮‍💨
Third World Gay Caucus, Pride March, photograph by Joffree T. Clarke, collection of Lenn Keller
This is an old pic from last year. But do I look better without glasses? 👓 🤔
Let’s Go O’s 🟠⚫️
Yes it is!
Can’t wait till Cowboy Carter!!!! July 4th!!!!

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