Corey Burnside was a shell of his former self when he met Cedric Sturdevent at a Greenville, Miss., support group for Black gay men in 2017. His previously contagious laughter was silenced; his weight was deteriorating. Four years earlier, Burnside had gone a year without talking to anyone he knew—not even his mother. His sisters […]
Darian Aaron
Darian Aaron is an award-winning journalist. He is currently the director of Local News: U.S. South at GLAAD. He previously served as communications director of The Counter Narrative Project, editor-at-large of The Reckoning and editor of Georgia Voice. Follow him @darianoutloud on all social platforms.