Michael Roberson

Michael Roberson is a public health practitioner, activist, and leader within the LGBTQ community who created The Federation of Ballroom Houses, co-created the National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Group and the nationally diffused CDC behavioral change HIV prevention intervention “Many Men, Many Voices.” Currently, he consults for several national community-based organizations focused on HIV clinical trial/biomedical and evidence-based interventions. He is also invested in national community capacity building and mobilization strategies designed to combat the disproportionate health disparities impacting both the black gay and black/Latino LGBT house ball communities. Michael co-teaches a course on the history of the house/ball community at New School University (New York), is a member of Ultra-red, and is the Scholar in Residence for the Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy (CRRED) at Union Theological Seminary. Michael earned Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from Union Theological Seminary.

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Ballroom Freedom School (7/7)

1986: An Elegy for Our Coldest War

By Michael Roberson Robert Sember Nikki Powerhouse Gio Exavier, and 1 more

1986: An Elegy for Our Coldest War Commemorating Gay Men of African Descent’s (GMAD) 30th anniversary alongside the legacy of black gay men organizing on behalf of themselves in response

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Ballroom Freedom School (2/7)

400 Years of Inequality

By Michael Roberson

400 Years of Inequality is a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals calling on everyone — families, friends, communities, institutions — to plan their own solemn observance of the anniversary

Ballroom: The Trans Sounds of Black Freedom

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Ballroom Freedom School (1/7)

Ballroom: The Trans Sounds of Black Freedom

By Michael Roberson

In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically

What Does a Queer Urban Future Look Like?

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Queer City (3/20)

What Does a Queer Urban Future Look Like?

By Thiago Carrapatoso Michael Roberson Jude Dibia Todd Lanier Lester, and 7 more

[roundtable_menu] [contributor]Ella Boureau, New York City [excerpt]I am mourning a second self, a sibling with ancestral knowledge whose presence I can only verify through absence. [/excerpt] [/contributor] [contributor]Thiago Carrapatoso, São